“Sometimes it was hard to breathe, knowing how small my world could be. Maybe in San Francisco it wouldn't feel like the… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
“People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who… — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness… This would be so even if there… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“My shadow is tired walking with me; but I have yet to be bored walking with myself, all by myself...” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“When she came home, she smelled the way I like. But . . . her face seemed sadder than when she left.” — Makoto Shinkai Copy Share Image
“Love is for the faint of hearts. The emotionally depraved In need of something to make them feel safe.” — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God… — Chinmayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
“There exists only one aloneness, and it is great, and it is not easy to bear. To nearly everyone come those hours… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The complete absence of a desire to please, or to put someone at their ease, could, in a less vulnerable person, have… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
To me spirituality needs an honest individuality. It does not allow any kind of dependence. It creates a freedom for itself, whatever… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Lying half-asleep in his embrace, I looked up and saw on his face the same expression I saw on countless lonely faces… — Kien Nguyen Copy Share Image
We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it's… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
“At first the lives of women frightened me. They seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers.… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
“Awareness is a choiceless consciousness. Awareness is the capacity to embrace, accept and include both joy and sadness, love and aloneness, light… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“We are all born and someday we’ll all die. Most likely to some degree alone.What if our aloneness isn’t a tragedy? What… — Rachel Corrie Copy Share Image
“If you were alone when you were born, alone when you were dying, really absolutely alone when you were dead, why "learn… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Meditation is the way to be with ourselves and to learn to accept our own aloneness. In aloneness, I experiment with being… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally.… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“What are the path of love and the path of meditation? There are basically two different paths to enlightenment. These two paths… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“It was a state of aloneness. It was the kind of place that started shooting political prisoners because it suspected that they… — Will Wiles Copy Share Image
Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Â… When… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, meu amor, we lose too much time asking ourselves questions that we can’t answer and forgetting that the answer is just… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
As much as I love my family, I enjoy it when the house is empty, because then I know I'm truly alone,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“... all humans are frightened of their own solitude. Yet only in solitude can man learn to know himself, learn to handle… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
“Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun in your own hand. Aloneness was the air in your tires,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“You must learn one thing: the world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“If you have been expending lots of energy mingling, counseling, or socializing, you need some down time to recover. Put it on… — Thom S. Rainer Copy Share Image
“It sounds ironic to say that the cure for loneliness is aloneness. I don’t mean that you should just make yourself more… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
“If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know… — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
Your art is part of the big painting of your life. You are on your own, standing by yourself in the middle… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
“Everyone experiences the feelings of sadness and loneliness. We might rue our lack of companionship, but some people present a desperate need… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
