Jane Hirshfield Quotes

I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you kind of be a better, more grounded person.

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.

True happiness is impossible without solitude.... I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me, and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company.

The kind of solitude that refreshes and restores is very important, not just for children, not just for adolescents, but for all of us. If you don't teach your children how to be alone they will only be able to be lonely.

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

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out.

I don't think people take enough time to themselves or like to be alone anymore, but it's really important.

We are all on a journey to mastering our inner peace.

If you use that time where you're alone in ways that bring you joy and peace, then that solitude can have a really positive effect on your life.

Sometimes you gotta get stupid with yourself, and you gotta enjoy your own company some time.

I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities. She must be the pioneer of achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.

Turning 30 was really big for me. I can get really stuck on 'I don't like this or that about myself.' I've found that the only thing that breaks that for me is being able to spend time alone, going to the movies by myself or going to art museums alone. I do that a lot. I've discovered the importance of even 15 or 30 minutes a day where it is just me.

Meditation is all about connecting with your soul. Part of maintaining your well-being is taking the time to disconnect from the outside to go within.

I do hot yoga. I try to keep one hour a day where I have space to reflect and meditate and take care of me and what is going on inside. This way, I can be a better person to be around.

A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It’s not just something nice to do to make the universe happy.

Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult.

Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot of relaxation.

If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.

It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.

Without meditation, I'd probably be dead.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.