Some feel lonely because they haven't found that perfect 'companion' yet. Sometimes Allah sends everyone else away so you can find that only in Him.
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Some feel lonely because they haven't found that perfect 'companion' yet. Sometimes Allah sends everyone else away so you can find that only in Him.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.
Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
All I ever wanted since I arrived here on Earth were the things that turned out to be within reach. The same things I needed as a baby - to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full. You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled. Who knew?
Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.
The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.
When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter.
Women would be better off when they no longer needed men more than they needed their own independent identities...How long a time it took me after my divorce to understand that being alone is not the same as being lonely.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.
Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?
Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.
It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.
If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.
Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.
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