“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” (Jean-Paul Sartre)
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slow down and REFLECT
on the MEANING and the MESSAGE of today’s quotation
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“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” (Jean-Paul Sartre)
In Your Own Words…
what is the central message of the above quote by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre?
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” (Albert Einstein)
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Getting Personal
Which do you prefer, a) spending time by yourself b) spending time with friends c) about the same?
Which do you prefer, a)traveling with friends b)traveling by yourself c) about the same?
When you spend an extended period of time by yourself, how comfortable do you feel (5 the highest) 1…..2…..3…..4…..5?
When you are by yourself, how much of this time do you spend on consciously reflecting on such topics as your values, your plans or your identity, a) almost never b) sometimes c) a lot?
“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.” (John Stuart Mill)
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INSIGHTS for SUCCESS
“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” John Steinbeck
“All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” Blaise Pascal
“Language…has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.” Paul Tillich
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Quotation AI Assistant
Interested in seeing what artificial intelligence (ai) has to say about the meaning of today’s quotation? Compare it to your own interpretation. You may be fascinated, or even possibly humbled.
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