If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone.
- Topic: Alone, Friendship
- Location: Zion National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Samuel Johnson
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.
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When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone.
I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.
If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.
No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives to none.
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
