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Loneliness is one of the most painful yet necessary experiences in life. People feel incomplete, empty, or even starvinginside. It is also a strong motivating force, just as food hunger is.
John Townsend • Boundaries in Dating: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Relationships
Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand
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The aloneness I keep referencing refers to a deep acknowledgement of your own brief place in the world, a small luminescent flicker in this great infinite darkness. The light is for you to bear and yours alone. No one is coming to tell you what to want, when to want it, when to leave and when to fight for anything. For some that feels like youth an... See more
You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions of people.
Olivia Laing • The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
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What does it feel like to be lonely? It feels like being hungry: like being hungry when everyone around you is readying for a feast. It feels shameful and alarming, and over time these feelings radiate outwards, making the lonely person increasingly isolated, increasingly estranged. It hurts, in the way that feelings do, and it also has physical c
... See moreOlivia Laing • The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
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If you go through life tending to your authentic voice and making it your job to learn and accept as much about yourself as you can, you generally wind up being one of those older people who are happy and wise, rather than an older person who is bitter and small-minded.
Lisa Marchiano • Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself
At the heart of loneliness is the absence of meaningful social interaction
Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness
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The mystic psychologist Carl Jung suggested that such sensations do ‘not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.’ In other words this kind of loneliness arises from feeling not fully seen, held, celebrated or u... See more
Joe Lightfoot • Of Pods, Squads, Crews & Gangs: Small Group Experiments In Radical Belonging
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