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#1

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
― Abigail Adams

tags: education, learning

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#2

“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.”
― Samuel Johnson

tags: perseverance

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#3

“There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.”
― Martin Luther

tags: diligence, judgement, time

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#4

“It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

tags: art, master, mistake, practice, study

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#5

“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson, and the Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Vol. 4 of 5

tags: diligence, ease

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#6

“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

tags: diligence, fortune, success

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#7

“Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.”
― Isaac Watts, Logic: The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth

tags: diligence, prudence, wise-counsel

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#8

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: common-sense, enterprise, hard-work, inspirational, perseverance, persistence, success, thomas-edison

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#9

“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

tags: hard-work, mastery, wonderful, work

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#10

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: loneliness

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#11

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

tags: alone, birth, death, growing-up, growth, life, lonely, love, self-respect

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#12

“I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

tags: alone, being-alone, self-knowledge

2095 likes

#13

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha

tags: alone, buddha, buddhism, destiny, fate, future, lone, past, path, present, save, saying, walk

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#14

“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

tags: alone, quiet, silence

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#15

“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: alone, blending-in, bravery, choices, confidence, conformity, courage, different, diversity, empowerment, fake, false, hiding, integrity, personality, regret, regrets, remorse, self-esteem, self-love, self-respect, self-worth, standing-up-for-other-women, true-self, uniqueness

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#16

“Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#17

“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

tags: alone, appearance, beautiful, beauty, bukowski, classic, classics, loneliness, lonely, mirror, people, poem, poetry, reflection, self, self-esteem, soul, superficial, superficial-beauty, superficiality, ugly

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#18

“Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

tags: alone, being, charlotte-eriksson, city, crowd, floor, inspiration, lonely, mastery, meditation

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#19

“Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.”
― Mike Norton, White Mountain

tags: alone, bare, bloom, creative, creativity, cultivate, endure, faith, forest, genesis, genius, grow, hero, legend, loneliness, originality, plant, rain, solitude, weather

234 likes

#20

“There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

tags: alone, lonely

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#21

“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

tags: alone

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#22

“What does an introvert do when he's left alone? He stays alone.”
― Jenni Ferrari-Adler, Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone

tags: alone, introvert, single

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#23

“I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.”
― Bjork

tags: alone, bjork, loneliness, nature, orgy

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#24

“There is a certain strength in being alone.”
― Heather Duffy Stone, This Is What I Want to Tell You

tags: alone, noelle, strength

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#25

“The strongest men are the most alone.”
― Ibsen

tags: alone

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#26

“I did not know I was lonely, she thought, until I was no longer alone.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

tags: alone, loneliness, lonely

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#27

“Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.”
― John Mayer, John Mayer - Battle Studies | Easy Guitar with Notes and Tab | Easy Guitar Arrangements for Beginners | 10 Hit Songs from John Mayers 2009 Album | ... for Beginners

tags: alone, solitude

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#28

“I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: a-tale-of-two-cities, alone, charles-dickens, depressed, depression, dickens, life, lonely, philosophy, sad, self-loathing, self-worth, sydney-carton

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#29

“She would not say of any one in the world that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, far out to the sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day. Not that she thought herself clever, or much out of the ordinary. How she had got through life on the few twigs of knowledge Fraulein Daniels gave them she could not think. She knew nothing; no language, no history; she scarcely read a book now, except memoirs in bed; and yet to her it was absolutely absorbing; all this; the cabs passing; and she would not say of Peter, she would not say of herself, I am this, I am that.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

tags: alone, beauty-of-the-world, emotions

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