People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices.
Aung San Suu KyiRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Inner strength allows one to endure isolation without feeling weakened.
Aung San Suu Kyi emphasizes the importance of inner resources, which include emotional and mental resilience, in enabling individuals to withstand periods of solitude. The quote suggests that a person with sufficient inner strength can navigate isolation positively, finding fulfillment and maintaining one's sense of self without external validation or connection.
Themes
Inner StrengthIsolationResilienceSelf-AwarenessSolitude
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be used during a motivational speech about self-reliance and mental health.
More from Aung San Suu Kyi
All quotes βThe struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
Aung San Suu KyiRead
This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now.
Aung San Suu KyiRead
My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
Aung San Suu KyiRead
If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.
Aung San Suu KyiRead
Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.
Aung San Suu KyiRead
Similar quotes
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
F. Scott FitzgeraldRead
The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.
Ramana MaharshiRead
If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.
Pema ChodronRead
Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
Sylvia PlathRead
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
Franz KafkaRead