Alexandra Stoddard Quotes

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

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

I highly recommend time to yourself.

A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!

What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won't be lost. Kids will not run crazy in one day. Lovers won't stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going to disappear. Just take that one day and think. Don't read. Don't write. No television, no radio, no distractions. Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think. Call it a healing day.

You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.

I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

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.

In my down time, I'm a homebody. I like to do a walkabout. I like my alone time.

I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

By all means use some time to be alone.

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.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

I like to read a lot, man. I read a lot and meditate and just go to that place. I'm not really an outdoorsman. I don't watch TV.

I just like to be alone sometimes and think.

I really just like to sit alone at the piano. I need my me time.

I definitely have to pray and spend a lot of time by myself when I can.

Solitude helps you reflect.

Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.

When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

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.