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- Nov 07, 2020
Alone Quotes
Alone doesn't always mean lonely.
The quotes here move between scientific uncertainty and personal isolation, including one reflection on feeling apart from mainstream family values and another on how loud music once made solitude bearable. For a shareable line, see our Status page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, in more collectivist cultures, we see that in group settings, people dampen their emotions but are very expressive when they are at home alone. In more individualistic cultures, such as North America and Europe, it's the opposite - people are more expressive in group settings than when they are by themselves.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nations are not built by governments alone. The government can at best be a facilitator, and a trigger for society's innate entrepreneurial and creative instincts.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go to the Himalayas after every film. I go alone. I go to the interiors, to the villages. Being there itself is like meditation.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
No dream is ever chased alone.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa - I can't face going to bed. I'm there with the TV on and all the lights on. I'm not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Karnan' ran for 100 days each at three theatres in Chennai alone. That is a record, since no movie runs for more than 100 days. My hope is that I don't ruin the original if it is remade.
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- Nov 07, 2020