No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.
He was thinking alone and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied with which he did not doubt as with the lever for which Archimedes sought they should succeed in moving the world when some one tapped gently at his door.
When thinking about companions gone we feel ourselves doubly alone.
We gave up some of our country to the white men thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
Bid then the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone let him be where he will.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.