Alone time offers individuals the opportunity for self-exploration, healing, and growth, countering the societal norm of constant social interaction. It promotes inner validation and well-being by allowing for introspection away from external distractions. This ultimately benefits mental, emotional, and physical health through intentional self-care practices and boundary-setting.
Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
America does not have a health care system; what modern medicine has created is an illness maintenance system. ~Morris Hyman, M.D., paraphrased
"The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state."
“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ~ George Bernard Shaw
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? ~Satchel Paige
Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better! ~Ingrid Bergman
"You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug."
"Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.
