Luis Barragan Quotes

Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

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

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.

I aspire only to silence.

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

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

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

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

You may never be less alone than when you are alone.

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.

...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.

In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how does life proceed for you? Who are you when you are alone? Self-creation is a Holy Experience. It is sacred. It is you, deciding Who You Are.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.

It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.