“If you want to have healthy relationships with other people, you need to develop a healthy one with yourself first, and that can’t come without you spending time on your own. You literally need to be alone.”— Chidera Eggerue, nytimes.com
“To Americans, drinking alone can sound, well, lonely (and, as we’ll get to shortly, problematic), but Finns typically don’t tend to see it that way, in part because they’re quite comfortable with solitude.”— Nicole Spector, nbcnews.com
“Time alone with yourself is a space in your life for healing, learning, and empowerment.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“You may ALWAYS find yaself trying to PLEASE EVERYONE else until you become drained. STOP, just take some time out for yaself & ya homies and family members should UNDERSTAND & not love u any less for having some ME TIME! Many of you deserve it.”— Missy Elliott, twitter.com
“Time spent in silence is time with your true Self. It is time spent to gain clarity and build confidence.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Don't feel alone. Having time to yourself is a big, big blessing. Think of all the great books that could never have been written!”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to. Stay home on New Year’s Eve if that’s what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to. Stay home on New Year’s Eve if that’s what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com
“I felt the most burning desire for once to be quite alone with my thoughts for a little while.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“Old souls aren’t afraid to spend time alone. They’re comfortable with silence.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Cherish the time you have by yourself. Chances are, you won’t have this time for long; probably not the greater part of your life. Do the things you know would be a lot harder to do once you do meet someone you care about: travel, stay out till 5 a.m. three nights in a row, let you apartment get mes…”— Kovie Biakolo, thoughtcatalog.com
“I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”— Amy Sedaris, amazon.com
“Give yourself what you need after any kind of sex, and ask your partner for what you need from them, and to voice their own needs. You may want to snuggle, talk, or go have lunch or take a walk together. You may instead want some time alone. It's up to each of you.”— Heather Corinna, scarleteen.com
“He understands that the healthiest couples are not attached at the hip. Rather, the healthiest couples live their own lives, having experiences they can then share with each other the next time they’re together.”— Steph Auteri, huffingtonpost.com