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"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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“Only a very small number of people are truly evil. But a very large number of people are conformists. To prevent evil on a mass scale it’s more important for us to ward against our own instinct to conform with the crowd than it is to worry about anything else."
CLAIRE LEHMANN
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"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road."
VOLTAIRE
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
RUDYARD KIPLING
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“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
JAMES BALDWIN
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A living philosophy sees the world as it is, without any color of belief or ideology.
How to utilize solitude
The only way to overcome solitude is to face it. Ease yourself in, with 10 minutes, then 20, then 30, of solitude a day, or week, or month.
There’s great power in doing nothing at all. But when you find strength — rather than fear — in solitude, you will live a far richer life: with ...
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