But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.
A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.
To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
I don't want to become unhealthily attached to what I do. I'm grateful for what I do, but I also want to be able to be OK when I'm not doing it.
I think if you can get to that point, exercising, when you really enjoy it, then you're pretty much set for life.
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