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“You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.”

Knows Remember Song Girl Isolation Single Life Single Girl

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.”

Isolation Teamwork Columnists Teamwork And Love

Author:Allan Sloan

“If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home.”

Ifs World Needs Whole Home Wish Waiting Steps Ready Whole World Welcome Isolation Atrocities

Book:A Language Older Than Words

Source: A Language Older Than Words

“Sometimes isolation can be shared.”

Sometimes Isolation

Author:Ken Grimwood

“The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.”

Persons Labor Lonely Communicate Isolation

Book:The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers

Source: The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers

“The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light. The island knows no other human voices, no other footprints. On the Offshore Lights you can live any story you want to tell yourself, and no one will say you're wrong: not the seagulls, not the prisms, not the wind.”

Knows Want Mind Humans Stories Light Voice Wind Mysterious Rhythm Islands Isolation One Time Footprint Cocoons Prisms Seagull Human Voice Offshore

Book:The Light Between Oceans

Source: The Light Between Oceans

“Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.”

Giving Children Country Shows Chance Fields Woods Streams Isolation Village Ponds

Book:Island

Source: Island

“Sending children away to get control of their anger perpetuates the feeling of 'badness" inside them...Chances are they were already feeling not very good about themselves before the outburst and the isolation just serves to confirm in their own minds that they were right.”

Mind Children Feelings Chance Very Good Isolation Chances Are Badness Outburst

Author:Otto Weininger

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship”

People Writing Heart Together Spirit Reading Sea Terrible Singing Storm Rage Ships Boat Isolation Decrease Writing And Reading

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.”

Ifs Kind Enough Stories Remember Names Water Common Break Listening Isolation Fever

Author:Mark Nepo

“The opposite of addiction is human connection. And I think that has massive implications for the war on drugs. The treatment of drug addicts almost everywhere in the world is much closer to Tent City than it is to anything in Portugal. Our laws are built around the belief that drug addicts need to be punished to stop them. But if pain and trauma and isolation cause addiction, then inflicting more pain and trauma and isolation is not going to solve that addiction. It's actually going to deepen it.”

“You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.”

Ifs World Needs Known Groups Ridiculous Changing The World Isolation Earnest

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.”

Causes Influence Misery Appreciation Chiefs Isolation Faculty Decline Tact Alleviate Thoughtfulness

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“Munch writes poetry with color. He has taught himself to see the full potential of color in art His use of color is above all lyrical. He feels color and he reveals his feelings through colors; he does not see them in isolation. He does not just see yellow, red and blue and violet; he sees sorrow and screaming and melancholy and decay.”

Feels Writing Doe Art Use Feelings Taught Color Sorrow Red Blue Isolation Melancholy Yellow Decay Violet Lyrical Full Potential Red And Blue

Author:Sigbjørn Obstfelder

“No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional turmoil, fear of isolation or thoughts of failure, keep in mind that if you are positive, positivity will find you and embrace you!”

“The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.”

Self Whole Interest Community Challenges Essentials Caring Isolation Self Interest Our Community Connectedness

Book:Community: The Structure of Belonging

Source: Community: The Structure of Belonging

“A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence.”

Ideas Opportunity Growth Window Essence Personal Growth Speed Isolation Good Ideas New Business Window Of Opportunity

Author:Richard Branson

“A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can comprehend, the greater are his chances of finding a truly adequate solution.”

Problem Chance Space Greater Risk Findings Solutions Scientist Management Isolation Time And Space Adequate Risk Management

Author:Russell L. Ackoff

“In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.”

World Made Ends Helping America Responsibility Illusion Independence Surprise Destroyed Manage Innocence Isolation Replaced April Bachelors Omnipotence World Power

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his lance, I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge drawn by dogs, I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic, I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation.”

Long Dog Built Mark South Winter Snow Boat Ice Isolation Regions Valleys Crew Hunters Seekers Cliffs Whales Pacific Seals Switzerland Glaciers Porpoises

Author:James Joyce

“You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.”

Horror Connected Empowering Isolation Empowered Reminding Reminding Yourself

Author:Adam Arkin

“If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.”

Ifs Men Would Be Products Raises Fruit Cease Income Being True Islands Isolation Owners Clothings Trading Monarchs

Author:John Bates Clark

“One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.”

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“I feel certain God loves me just the way I am, and I have a huge sense of calling to communicate that to young people. The Church's teaching was the reason that I lived in so much shame and isolation and pain for all those years. But rather than abandon it and say it's broken, I want to be part of the change.”

People Way Want Feels Years Reason Pain Young Certain Church Teaching Huge Broken Calling Shame Communicate God Love Isolation Abandon God Loves Me

Author:Vicky Beeching

“Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric.”

Science Individual Property Population Isolation Mechanism

Book:Populations, Species, and Evolution: An Abridgment of Animal Species and Evolution

Source: Populations, Species, and Evolution: An Abridgment of Animal Species and Evolution

“Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.”

Men Heart May Doe Forget Views Democracy Danger Solitude Clouds Every Man Isolation Thrown Ancestor Shut Up Descendants

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.”

Two Attitude Principles Isolation Accord

Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works

“I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine.”

Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more

“When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it. And isolation lulls him with the music of the lie.”

Sometimes Dream Lying Dark Broken Isolation Compass Cradle Daylight Lulls Dark Dreams

Book:The Light Between Oceans

Source: The Light Between Oceans

“One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes, cold scholasticism, or an isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.”

Moving Humanity Order Force Justice Example Cold Mass Strive Deeds Extremes Isolation Transformed Dose Dogmatic Scholasticism

Book:Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution

Source: Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution

“No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace.”

Ifs World Way Helping Spirit Secret Rich Influence Achieve Solitude Degrees Destroyed Mysterious Intimate Isolation Feds Surroundings

Book:The child in the family

Source: The child in the family

“Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know”

Knows Dies Luxury Isolation Deserted Sublimity

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility. I feel that's wrong; it can act as a barrier that just promotes a feeling of isolation from others. To overcome feelings of isolation and loneliness, your underlying attitude makes a tremendous difference - approaching others with the thought of compassion in your mind is the best way.”

“Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.”

Poverty Isolation Deprivation

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“When Christians are caught in sin, they do not need isolation or amputation; they need restoration. The proper thing to do is to help them confess their sins and find forgiveness in Christ, and then welcome them back into the fellowship of the church.”

Needs Helping Christian Christ Church Sin Caught Welcome Things To Do Isolation Fellowship Restoration Amputation

Author:Philip Graham Ryken

“People say to us how brave we are, fighting the wilderness, braving the isolation of the Outback. But these are easy opponents, compared with drought. To watch your land shrivel and die, year in and year out, to see beautiful fields turn to dust bowls, to watch your animals starve and die. To suffer all this, only to be then washed away in a flood, your home and your family treasures lost and destroyed. And then to pick up the pieces and start again. The farmers of the South are brave!”

Source: From Strength to Strength

“Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.”

Knows Relationship Isolation Abstraction Know Yourself

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Isolation is a way to know ourselves.”

Knows Way Isolation

Author:Franz Kafka

“We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down because it threatens the overall quality and breadth of American literature.”

Book Soul Lying Literature Individual Quality Creation Strikes Isolation Breadth Insidious American Literature

Author:John Green

“A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and isolation from everything outside the rectangle, it can create another reality, an emotion that did not exist in the 'true' situation. It's the tension between these two realities that lends it strength.”

Two Reality Emotion Silence Situation Movement Photograph Tension Isolation Rectangles

Author:Richard Kalvar

“A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person. Until that vow is fulfilled and the promise is kept, the individual is in debt to his marriage partner. That is what he owes. 'You owe it to yourself' is not a valid excuse for breaking a marriage vow but a creed of selfishness.”

Persons Doe Made Individual Promise Married Excuse Debt Partners Selfishness Isolation Creeds Fulfilled Vow Pledge Marriage Vows

Author:R. C. Sproul

“Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.”

Ideas Earth Powerful Known Taken Photograph Available Isolation New Ideas Sheer

Author:Fred Hoyle

“There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.”

Loneliness Isolation Allies Abyss

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.”

Has Beens Made Sometimes Progress Relation Debate Isolation Engagement Imperfect Regimes Diplomatic Libya Diplomatic Relations

Author:Earl Blumenauer

“Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation. Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life. Much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive.”

Mind Real Whole Character Difficult Work Out Trials Isolation Spells Trust In God Sublime Utterance

Author:Oswald Chambers

“The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.”

Community Economy Contribution Abundance Isolation Consumption Scarcity Transactions

Author:Charles Eisenstein

“I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the work as I'm making it. I'm always trying to create beauty, reveal hope, show the sense of longing that exists in isolation and loneliness, and capture the search for something greater inside all of my subjects.”

“The walls of isolation are not as solid as your suffering makes them seem.”

Seems Suffering Wall Isolation

Book:The Deeper Wound

Source: The Deeper Wound

“Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.”

Wells Break Loneliness Solitude Isolation Haste

Author:Dallas Willard

“Mastering the art of aloneness doesn't mean living in isolation or never needing the love, support, and involvement of others. It means creating and living a life in which you feel whole and content as an individual on your own; a life in which you can take care of yourself emotionally and financially.”

Feels Mean Art Whole Care Individual Support Creating Take Care Isolation Involvement Take Care Of Yourself

Book:Solemate

Source: Solemate