Friday 29 November 2019

Living Alone or Together

“People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth”

“We are not lonely, because we chose to be alone.
We are not lost, because we chose to disappear.”

“There is lonely, and there is alone time. I have found that both have etched character upon my soul.”

“My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that needs to be gotten [sic] rid of.”

“Only when I am alone, I really feel connected to the entire universe.”

“Just imagine, life to be a response with different kind of rhythms depending on what is playing in the background. Sometimes we may enjoy alone and that’s OK, as some acts are simply meant to be enjoyed like that. Practice! Don’t stop! It’s your life! ”

“Rule #1 of Traveling - Don't even think of answering questions that contain the word "plan"?”

“As a Wrong Planet person you may at times appear to be unsociable. You’re often dispassionate when it comes to the activities of others because they seem so mediocre to you. You sometimes find it disappointing to make friends with people who you just can’t relate to. And because of this from time to time you find yourself alone, although you don’t mind this. It’s simply that people don’t always cut it for you”

“I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone - as it seems to me - is in danger.”

“Majority is not always right. The fact that many people are in support of a wrong thing does not make the thing right. After all, the number of persons who with poor reasoning capacity is higher than those with better reasoning capacity.
I don't read or care about majority's stance on a particular issue before expressing mine. I look at issues critically before expressing mine, not minding the reaction of majority.
There are more foolish people than there are wise people. People who think deeply and critically are fewer compared to those with poor thinking.
I can handle majority but can't handle my conscience”

“I have continued to come here for that kind of aloneness, so very different from being lonely with someone.”

“We might be all alone in the world, in fact, but that doesn't mean we have to be lonely.”

“I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups.”

“Love is its own reward. We do not have to worry about what other people think about us. We can never feel alone or isolated when we understand that it is impossible for love to leave our side. Love is all around us.”

“Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is a neutral state; [...]. Is it possible? That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me. Is it true? Could Denny have possibly appreciated the subjective nature of loneliness, which is something that exists only in the mind, not in the world, and, like a virus, is unable to survive without a willing host?”

― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

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Garth Stein

“Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is neutral state; [...]. Is it possible? That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me. Is it true? Could Denny have possibly appreciated the subjective nature of loneliness, which is something that exists only in the mind, not in the world, and, like a virus, is unable to survive without a willing host?”

― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

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Tove Jansson

“Mari hörte nicht so genau zu, ein abenteuerlicher Gedanke begann Form anzunehmen: die Möglichkeit eines ganz eigenen Alleinseins in Frieden und Erwartung, fast eine Art Jux, den man sich erlauben kann, wenn man mit Liebe gesegnet ist.”

― Tove Jansson, Fair Play

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“I'm not alone, I have a dream.”

― Inu Etc

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Shane Arbuthnott

“You forget this from time to time, Molly, but you are not alone. I am here. Your family is here. [...] Not every responsibility is yours.”

― Shane Arbuthnott, Terra Nova

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“Our level of personal awareness and time devoted to reflecting upon the important issues of life determines how we perceive the world, address loneliness, and blunt despair.”

― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

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John King

“There's no time to muck about with nature and romance. Start thinking like that and you'll be old before your time.”

― John King, The Football Factory

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“Im that tree who is alone and the most greener compared to those brown forest”

― Pratyush Singh

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“He cleared his throat. "Can I ask you, what does a woman mean when she says she needs space?" He put his hand to his chest. "I have lost my wife, she has left, and it hurts so deeply."




I stifled a laugh, not because I thought he pain (or inebriation, if that's what it was) was funny, but because it was too ridiculous. After all this, to be happily sitting alone on a beach on my fortieth birthday and be called upon by a male stranger to answer for his aloneness.”

― Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

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“Epiphany of remembrance of God inside is the only way to know who you really are and that you are not alone”

― Syed Sharukh

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Evie Wyld

“I feel the pull of being alone, of answering to no one, the safety of being unknown and far away.”

― Evie Wyld, All the Birds, Singing

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Kangoma Kindembo

“If you were born alone to die alone - socializing is not a must - when you haven't built a society within yourself.”

“Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.”

― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

tags: alone, alone-but-not-lonely, aloneness, being-single, finding-yourself, independence, loving-yourself, positive-thinking, self-love, self-worth, single-life, single-woman, the-single-woman, valuing-yourself161 likesLike

Sanhita Baruah

“Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there's one person who never ceased to love you - yourself.”

― Sanhita Baruah

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“This world today makes one by the day a recluse”

― Sian Lavinia Anais Valeriana, Lavinia - Volume One

tags: alone-but-not-lonely, avoidance, life-experience, solitary15 likesLike

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“I've learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peace”

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Watcher in the Shadows

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“I covet solitude and storms…and rain, with its geography of dark silence and distance”

― john j geddes

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Bangambiki Habyarimana

“A writer is never alone, he is always with himself”

― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

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“Lonely and Alone: There's a difference.”

― Jerhia

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Jonathan P. Lamas

“And I played music through the night, alone, echoing through the halls. My life, alive through note.”

― Jonathan Lamas, Sanctuary of Expression

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Lailah Gifty Akita

“We walk alone in the wilderness.”

― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

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Sara Maitland

“This about it for a moment. It is truly very odd.

We apparently believe that we own our own bodies as possessions and should be allowed to do with them more or less anything we choose, from euthanasia to a boob job, but we do not want to be on our own with these precise possessions.

We live in a society which sees high self-esteem as a proof of well-being, but we do not want to be intimate with this admirable and desirable person.

We see moral and social conventions as inhibitions on our personal freedoms, and yet we are frightened of anyone who goes away from the crowd and develops 'eccentric' habits.

We believe that everyone has a singular personal 'voice' and is, moreover, unquestionably creative, but we treat with dark suspicion (at best) anyone who uses one of the most clearly established methods of developing that creativity - solitude.

We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.

We declare that personal freedom and autonomy is both a right and good, but we think anyone who exercises that freedom autonomously is 'sad, mad or bad'. Or all three at once.”

― Sara Maitland, How to Be Alone

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“Alone is Nothing, be Different is Everthing.”

― jan jansen easy branches

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Heather Day Gilbert

“I am happy to be alone.

Perhaps this is true.

Or perhaps I am the biggest coward of all.”

― Heather Day Gilbert, Forest Child

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Rita Stradling

“As the sweaty, alcohol fuming bodies press in on me from all directions I decide that my ideal of a good time is reading a good novel, alone”

― Rita Stradling, The Lie Spinners

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Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold like death”

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