To be

To be is to be related.
To isolate is death.

~Bruce Lee

It is

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

~Willie Sutton

Knowledge

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

~Carl Jung

Love is life

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

~Leo Tolstoy

A living body

A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the substance is a stream of energy going in at one end and out at the other. We are particularly and temporarily identifiable wiggles in a stream that enters us in the form of light, heat, air, water, milk, bread, fruit, beer, beef Stroganoff, caviar, and pate de foie gras. It goes out as gas and excrement - and also as semen, babies, talk, politics, commerce, war, poetry, and music. And philosophy.

~Alan Watts

But I'll tell you

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

~Alan Watts

Advice?

Advice? I don't have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you're writing, you're a writer. Write like you're a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there's no chance for a pardon. Write like you're clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you've got just one last thing to say, like you're a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God's sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don't. Who knows, maybe you're one of the lucky ones who doesn't have to.

~Alan Watts

In war

“In war, numbers alone confer no advantage.”

- Sun Tzu

Go back, Sam

Frodo: Go back, Sam. I'm going to Mordor alone.
Sam: Of course you are. And I'm coming with you.

~Frodo and Sam, Lord of the Rings

You are a Ring-bearer

You are a Ring-bearer, Frodo. To bear a Ring of Power is to be alone.

~Galadriel, The Lord of the Rings

And whose side are you on?

Pippin: And whose side are you on?
Treebeard: Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little orc.

~Pippin and Treebeard, The Lord of the Rings

Oh, but you are alone

Oh, but you are alone. Who knows what you have spoken to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all your life seems to shrink, the walls of your bower closing in about you, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in? So fair, yet so cold like a morning of pale Spring still clinging to Winter's chill.

~Grima Wormtongue, The Lord of the Rings

We not only live among men

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

~Henry Ward Beecher

I have seen a thousand

I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.

~Emanuel Swedenborg

We feel isolated

We feel isolated and lonely, and it's not necessary. Each of us has a guardian angel who works with us as much as we will allow.

~Eileen Elias Freeman

All man's miseries

"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone."

-- Blaise Pascal

Do not walk behind me

Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone.
~unknown

Life is meant

Life is meant to be lived in the flesh and in action... not in cyberspace and thought alone. We need to connect in a real way with what lives around us... we need to go outside and smell the air, touch the trees, visit the birds with our eyes and our ears.

~Shirley Gibson

I went

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

~Mira Bai

Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.

~Mignon McLaughlin,