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“The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master.”

Made Facts Shows Loneliness Masters Unhappy

Author:Matsuo Basho

“I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.”

Thinking God Loneliness Masters Lonely

Book:The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

“We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.”

Way Feels Heart Lasts Waiting Answers Loneliness Identity Masters Wander

Book:The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

Source: The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

“I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.”

Ifs Love Age My Own Loneliness Masters Safety Fear Of Love Love Death

Author:Martha Gellhorn

“Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than others, for no apparent reason. Accept the pain. Little by little, you will find new strength, new vision, born of the very pain and loneliness which seem, at first, impossible to master.”

Firsts Looks Littles Reason Seems Pain Born Challenges Accepting Vision Impossible Loneliness Masters Tests Wave Grieving Each Day New Vision

Author:Daphne du Maurier

“Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.”

Littles Earth Rooms Sea Loneliness Planets Masters Lonely Feeling Lonely

Book:Arthur Symons: Selected Writings

Source: Arthur Symons: Selected Writings

“While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.”

Ifs Half Loneliness Masters Solitude Behavior Proportion Companion

Book:Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master

Source: Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master

“Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him .... How far the pupil will go is not the concern of the teacher and master. Hardly has he shown him the right way when he must let him go on alone. There is only one thing more he can do to help him endure his loneliness: he turns him away from himself, from the Master, by exhorting him to go further than he himself has done, and to "climb on the shoulders of his teacher."”

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Author:Eugen Herrigel