Gratitude is a process, not a pronouncement.
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Quotes tagged ‘Being Alone’
You don’t need to worry about me, I want to whisper. I have created something from nothing here. I have willed a way of life into being. I have found kinship networks in France that nourish me.
There’s not a single person on this planet who can navigate everything by themselves. We’re in this life together, tethered to each other, fumbling and trying to find our way—and we all need help sometimes. We aren’t meant to go at it alone. And you aren’t meant to struggle in silence.
You know the lonely in a room of people trope? Well, it's a cliché for a reason, though so many of us still find it hard to accept.
Learning to be alone is one of the hardest and the best things I’ve ever done for myself.
To Americans, drinking alone can sound, well, lonely (and, as we’ll get to shortly, problematic), but Finns typically don’t tend to see it that way, in part because they’re quite comfortable with solitude.
Being alone really makes you realize all you got is yourself.
Having fun alone this summer means getting to know yourself and the world around you.
Two people, together forever. Security in life! And someone to love ya! Instead of being all alone, such a lonely existence. I'd kill myself!
— Dan Fybel, Rich Rinaldi, Linda Belcher, John Roberts, imdb.com
In our hyper-connected world, a world in which we can communicate constantly and instantly over the internet, we rarely remember to carve out spaces for solitary contemplation.
If we lose our capacity for solitude, our ability to be alone with ourselves, then we lose our very ability to think.
I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.
It is better to be alone than to be with someone who can’t see who you are.
It is better to be alone than to be with someone who can’t see who you are.
She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace.
It is better to be alone than to be with someone who can’t see who you are.
And if you couldn’t be loved, the next best thing was to be left alone.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
It’s better to have nobody than someone who is half there, or who doesn’t want to be there.
I mean, I don't really deal with break-ups, but it's not so bad being alone.