Angel Olsen Quotes

Sometimes you gotta get stupid with yourself, and you gotta enjoy your own company some time.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out.

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

If you use that time where you're alone in ways that bring you joy and peace, then that solitude can have a really positive effect on your life.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you kind of be a better, more grounded person.

I actually feel that the better you know yourself, the more you want to hang out with yourself and enjoy that time to do whatever makes you happy.

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

I feel most at home when I'm alone. That's not sad. It's just I feel closest to source and connection when I'm by myself.

I don't think people take enough time to themselves or like to be alone anymore, but it's really important.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.