Sentences with phrase «like solitude»

Travelers who like solitude, peace, luxury and flawless service should visit this beautiful resort.

For the more adventurous, Fraser Island camping along the eastern beach is very popular with those who like solitude.

They live their lives in monk - like solitude and serenity, other than the rare moments in which they reproduce.

Because I like solitude I didn't mind working alone, but when I had questions, or when fear reared its head, I didn't have many places to turn for answers or support.

I like my solitude.

I am an artist and I like the solitude of my surroundings to create, most of the time.

To me, balance is the sweet spot: liking solitude and company.

Not exact matches

Parts of her book, Introvert Power, read like a manifesto for inwardly oriented people's right to refreshing solitude.

But they also found that solitude «tended to increase positive and negative low - arousal affects,» the study authors write, including emotions like feeling calm, peaceful and relaxed or sad, bored and lonely.

If solitude is a knob to turn down the intensity of your emotions, both good and bad, then it seems like a practice worth considering.

The 87 - year - old was immortalized for works like Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude, along with numerous short stories...

It may be silly, but then getting paid minimum wage to read books when one is 18 years old ain't a bad gig, and this man and the library he led and the town which made this library possible are irreplaceable factors in both making and preserving important things like the opportunity to read good (or not so good) books in quiet solitude.

I love to have alone time and peace in my solitude but I would also like to share my life with a man who wants to share his with me.

Thus they arrived ahead of Jesus and the disciples; but although his attempt to find solitude had failed, «he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things» (Mk 6:34; Mt 14:14; cf. 9:36; Lk 9:11).

Where, in a life like this, is there any quiet solitude?

The purely twaddling inhuman and too - human men are to such a degree without feeling for the need of solitude that like a certain species of social birds (the so - called love birds) they promptly die if for an instant they have to be alone.

On the other hand, he often feels a need of solitude, which for him is a vital necessity — sometimes like breathing, at other times like sleeping.

To keep our sanity, we have to remember that even friends are like ships passing in the night; their lights penetrate each other's zones of visibility, their solitudes touch and greet for a while — but then they move on.

Spiritual practices like prayer, silence, solitude, intentional community, and time spent in God's Word will strengthen your resources and surround you with the armor of God.

In the play Ephigenia had leave to weep, really she ought to have been allowed like Jephtha's daughter two months for weeping, not in solitude but at her father's feet, allowed to employ her art «which is but tears,» and to twine about his knees instead of presenting the olive branch of the suppliant.

But I also like to step into my fortress of solitude and parse out some of the bigger messages when I'm in the thick of it.

This one sucks way worse being at home, and here's why: At work, when my hunger went from 0 to «holy shit, I need food right now or someone is going to get drop - kicked,» one of two things happened: 1) a sympathetic co-worker may have offered to pick up lunch or share the contents of their snack drawer with me, or 2) they would run from me like a herd of terrified villagers, at least providing me solitude.

Perhaps some children like Liam can not cope with hours of solitude and therefore need more frequent attention and affection.»

Joe Polito, a Bethlehem resident who jogged down the trail last week, said he likes the quiet solitude of the unpaved section of the path, which many people still use.

In the wild, these four - legged carnivores wander in solitude across islands in Indonesia, consuming large prey like deer and water buffalo.

Physicists like Einstein and Newton are among our most fundamental thinkers, and they were peculiarly aware of what solitude brings to serious thought.

Solitude, much like meditation, quiets outside distractions.

While some of us revel in solitude, no one likes to feel lonely or isolated.

I like moments of silence and solitude, but I can not stand without personal contact with the partner and my friends.

When I'm feeling like I can't write, I like to travel and to have solitude.

It's like living on a deserted island destined for a future of solitude and loneliness.

All these sites are reviewed on parameters like ease of use, likelihood of getting a date, strength of effectiveness of attributes, membership base and emphasis on solitude, amongst others.

I prefer solitude, but one day I'd like to have a family of my own.

Rejoice in solitude - however long it lasts - and agaln to know yourself, because like Carrie Bradshaw mentioned in an episode of Sex And Brealup City.

If you still encounter the problem of solitude and you would like a partner through online dating, you need to know how to solve this problem and how to meet the right person online.

Normally I like to go to the observatory alone, it's kinda my Fortress of Solitude (Superman fan, don't judge), but for the right person, I'll make room on my stargazing blanket.

A thought - provoking science fiction that may feel dated today even with its good visuals but raises interesting philosophical questions about solitude, the value of life and what it is like to risk everything for a conviction - which outweighs the ecological message intended.

If you were forced to spend your lifetime in solitude, the Avalon looks like one of the better places in which to do so.

Like a Jedi Master, he has gone to the Dark Side and now crashes funerals, taking advantage of lonely women's grief and fear of solitude - to get laid!

Like Moon, The Martian involves a Starman (David Bowie's space anthem of the same name is used tremendously in Scott's film) contending with crippling solitude and psychological tremors when he's left for dead on Mars.

A mustached Paul Rudd truly enjoys the solitude; he claims to be able to focus his downtime into gaining what he considers valuable skills, like learning foreign languages, and that being away from people — like his girlfriend, Madison who is also, by way of holy - shit - it's - a-small-world, Lance's sister — actually helps him better himself.

Domhnall Gleeson is Caleb, the geeky coder working for a software giant called Bluebook (like Google, but bigger and more important); imagine Caleb's excitement and fear when he wins an in - house competition to spend a week alone with the firm's reclusive, scarily Kurtzian founder, Nathan (bullishly played by Oscar Isaac), in his gigantic fortress of solitude on a private island — it looks like the one where they built Jurassic Park.

After years of solitude in the self - built segment, there's now an intruder and it looks like it means business.

A disappointing murmur of wind noise spoils the solitude, but otherwise, this feels every bit like a luxury car.

Too many authors feel like they have to do it all by themselves, writing, revising, and seeking publication in solitude.

In some ways I believe we balance each other out, though, like pennyn, my husband doesn't completely understand my need for LOTS of solitude.

For people like me, solitude is a victory.

Contrary to other independent - minded literary heroines like Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's The Awakening or the unnamed narrator in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story «The Yellow Wallpaper,» Jane is not actively shunning social expectations, but rather forced into a life of solitude by circumstances beyond her control.

In addition to writing for young adults, M. T. Anderson also writes for younger readers, including two picture books illustrated by the award - winning Kevin Hawkes: Handel, Who Knew What He Liked, a biography of eighteenth - century composer George Frideric Handel, which was a Boston Globe - Horn Book Honor Winner, and Me, All Alone, At The End Of The World, which Newsday called «a persuasive argument for a little solitude and space to think.»

I suppose, like many writers, I've identified the writing practice with solitude, with head down focus and perseverance, with forging my own course.