Joseph Campbell Quotes

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.

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

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

I love to sit on my own and think, not to be photographed all the time.

I'm a super spiritual person, so every now and then I'll say, "Everyone, get out of my room because I need 15 minutes by myself to just sit alone." I have a chapter in my book [How to Be a Bawse] called "Pause," and basically, the idea is one of the ways to be successful is to reflect back on your successes and everything you've achieved.

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.

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

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

By all means use some time to be alone.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

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.

Since I was young, I've been aware that I need time to myself to process everything.

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

Travelling alone was like laundry for my thoughts.

I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

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.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

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

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

I want to be alone with my thought.

What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.

I mean, I can't say that I've had many deep thoughts because I traveled alone, but it's good to be with myself in the quiet.