You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.
Interpretation
Loneliness stems from our feelings about ourselves rather than our actual circumstances.
This quote suggests that loneliness is not solely due to being physically alone, but rather how we perceive our own company. If one does not enjoy being alone with oneself, then feelings of loneliness can arise, highlighting the importance of self-acceptance and self-love in overcoming feelings of isolation.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a discussion about mental health awareness.
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.
The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?
But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his cheek by the hollow of your shoulder, full of sleep. As it it were you who could, somehow, save him. For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as. For the moment, anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are.
More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.