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Tag Name "Isolation" (283)

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Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.
Brendan Dooling
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Isolation of the caretaker role is a real danger. That way lies sadness.
Christopher Noxon
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Isolation is a dream killer.
Barbara Sher
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Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Isolation must precede true society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.
Glenn Gould
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Isolation is a way to know ourselves.
Franz Kafka
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Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.
Zhang Xin
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Isolation is the dream killer.
Barbara Sher
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Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.
Toni Morrison
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Isolation offered its own form of companionship
Jhumpa Lahiri
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Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.
Gary Chapman
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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.
Barbara Tuchman
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No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.
Veronica Roth
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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.
Aldous Huxley
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
Boris Pasternak
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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.
Vicky Beeching
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Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.
Alfred Korzybski
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I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.
Vinessa Shaw
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The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.
Ali Babacan
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For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else will love you.”…The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation
Bruce D. Perry
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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
Virginia Woolf
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Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.
Allan Sloan
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