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May these quotes about Loneliness inspire and motivate you.
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
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Language... 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
We are all so much together,
but we are all dying of loneliness.
- Albert Schweitzer
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
- Amelia Earhart
When you are alone you are not alone,
you are simply lonely -
and there is a tremendous difference
between loneliness and aloneness.
When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,
you are missing the other.
Loneliness is a negative state.
You are feeling that it would have been
better if the other were there -
your friend, your wife, your mother,
your beloved, your husband.
It would have been good if the other
were there, but the other is not.
Loneliness is absence of the other.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
Aloneness is very positive.
It is a presence, overflowing presence.
You are so full of presence
that you can fill the whole universe
with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
- Osho
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
- Judy Garland
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
It is strange to be known so universally
and yet to be so lonely.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
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.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
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