S is for Solitude

S is for Solitude.  We probably have more than we want now.

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.
Pearl Buck

Solitude is as needful to the imagination

as society is wholesome for the character

James Russell Lowell

Our language has widely sensed these two sides of man's being alone.
It 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