Solitude.

A chance to center oneself.

" Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine. "
Honore de Balzac

" If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company. "
Jean-Paul Sartre

" The more powerful and original a mind,
the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. "
Aldous Huxley

" A man can be himself only so long as he is alone;
and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom;
for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. "
Arthur Schopenhauer

" Solitude sometimes is best society. "
John Milton

" Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self. "
May Sarton

" Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. "
Marcel Proust

" The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" 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. "
William Wordsworth

" For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose. "
Marcus Aurelius

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