Quote by Alan Watts
I owe my solitude to other people. - Alan Watts

I owe my solitude to other people. – Alan Watts

Other quotes by Alan Watts

We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin. – Alan Watts

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You dont look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. – Alan Watts

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. – Alan Watts

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Solitude
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When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death — ourselves. – Eda LeShan

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Solitude

Solitude coaxes magical things from our souls. – Terri Guillemets

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Solitude

The right to be alone — the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man. – Louis D. Brandeis

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Solitude

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known… then went crazy as a loon. – Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Lisa Simpson

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