Practicing solitude

 In solitude, you are not merely alone, but have deliberately separated yourself from others. Taken all together, we can therefore define solitude this way: the intentional withdrawal from social engagement

Puny

 As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Henry David Thoreau

Memento mori

 

'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.'

These lines appear in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, in one of Prospero’s most famous speeches (‘Our revels now are ended’).

People being people

 

“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”― Terry Pratchett

Wabi-sabi

 

• “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” - Ernest Hemingway

Imagine Sissyphus as happy...