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“Being alone sounds sad, aimless, or lonely, to hear ads or memes describe it. Solitude, however, is chosen and purposeful. It isn’t loneliness, but the practice of a deep integrity. It’s learning to be present to God wholeheartedly, as your true and simple self. Richard Foster wrote, “Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.”
― Heidi Haverkamp, Holy Solitude: Lenten Reflections with Saints, Hermits, Prophets, and Rebels

“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch