Sarah Dessen Quotes

Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

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

I listen to myself, listen to my heart.

Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. Cultivate regular periods of silence and meditation. The best time to build judgment is in solitude, when you can think out things for yourself without the probability of interruption.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

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

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

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

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

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.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Genius develops in quiet places; character out of the full current of human life.

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.

You have to listen to your own heart.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.

Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully.

The fruit of solitude is increased sensitivity and compassion for others. There comes a new freedom to be with people. There is new attentiveness to their needs, new responsiveness to their hurts. Thomas Merton observes, 'It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them.... Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.