{"quotes":[{"text":"There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over...The hope that they will leave soon.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["alone","alone-time","company","funny","funny-but-true","home","hope","humor","introversion","introvert","loner","privacy","shy"],"id":17643,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.","author":"Jonathan Harnisch","tags":["alibiography","alone","alone-time","artist","book","books","contemplation","contemplative","creativity","creativity","creativity-work","jonathan-harnisch","loneliness","nighttime","porcelain-utopia","story","writing","writing-advice","writing-from-the-heart","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing-process"],"id":101309,"author_id":"Jonathan+Harnisch"},{"text":"We need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts.","author":"Tamim Ansary","tags":["alone","alone-time","solitude"],"id":131058,"author_id":"Tamim+Ansary"},{"text":"Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of 'one-right-way' thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief from government surveillance and intimidation if original expressions belonging to THEM are to develop. Without these freedom has no meaning.","author":"John Taylor Gatto","tags":["alone-time","children","education-system","family","freedom"],"id":155887,"author_id":"John+Taylor+Gatto"},{"text":"Truth is, I’m generally happiest when it’s just me. It’s okay to be madly in love with yourself.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["alone-time","being-alone","love","love","loving-life","loving-yourself","quiet-time","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","solitude"],"id":180062,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to pick up from the last stop, to continue in the same vein, a vein I had struck when I was a child and went down in the street for the first time alone and there frozen into the dirty ice of the gutter lay a dead cat, the first time I had looked at death and grasped it. From that moment I knew what it was to be isolated: every object, every living thing and every dead thing led its independent existence. My thoughts too led to an independent existence.","author":"Henry Miller","tags":["alone-time","existence","life","nihilism","tropic-of-capricorn"],"id":188027,"author_id":"Henry+Miller"},{"text":"Tea is just an excuse.I am drinking this sunset, this evening.And you.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["alone-time","drink","evening","indian-","magic","poetry","poetry","romance","romantic","solitude","sunset","tea","tea-lovers","thoughts","warm","warmth"],"id":225996,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"},{"text":"I liked having some time to myself. Our family was such a close one, you could get smothered. Of course, we didn't always agree with one another. Sometimes I quarreled with my brother and sisters, but I couldn't remember hating anyone for more than five minutes.","author":"Gloria Whelan","tags":["alone-time","anger","family","getting-along","siblings"],"id":236790,"author_id":"Gloria+Whelan"},{"text":"Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.","author":"Ken Poirot","tags":["alone","alone-time","aloneness","journey","journey-of-life","journey","journeys","journeys-in-life","journeys","life","life-and-living","life-changing","life-experience","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","travel","travel","traveled","traveler","travelers","traveling","traveling-alone","traveller","travelling","travels"],"id":300626,"author_id":"Ken+Poirot"},{"text":"It is hard to love yourself if you never spend time with yourself. 'Alone Time' is Necessary.","author":"Izey Victoria Odiase","tags":["alone","alone-time","aloneness","best","inspirational","life","love","motivational","of-the-day","self-esteem","self-improvement","self-love"],"id":433837,"author_id":"Izey+Victoria+Odiase"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}