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“Yes, she was lonely, but she missed no one in particular. Whom could she miss? Her days were full of life and pleasure, but they passed so quickly.”

Book:Ronia, the Robber's Daughter

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Ronia, the Robber's Daughter

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Astrid Lindgren

Swedish author known for her children's literature, with famous works including 'Pippi Longstocking' and 'The Magic Faraway Tree'. Her books are beloved by children worldwide and have had a profound impact on children's literature. more

“Can we give up all for the love of God? When the surrender of ourselves seems too much to ask, it is first of all because our thoughts about God Himself are paltry. We have not really seen Him, we have hardly tested Him at all and learned how good He is. In our blindness we approach Him with suspicious reserve. We ask how much of our fun He intends to spoil, how much He will demand from us, how high is the price we must pay before He is placated. If we had the least notion of His loving-kindness and tender mercy, His fatherly care for His poor children, His generosity, His beautiful plans for us; if we knew how patiently He waits for our turning to Him, how gently He means to lead us to green pastures and still waters, how carefully He is preparing a place for us, how ceaselessly He is ordering and ordaining and engineering His Master Plan for our good-if we had any inkling of all this, could we be reluctant to let go of our smashed dandelions or whatever we clutch so fiercely in our sweaty little hands? If with courage and joy we pour ourselves out for Him and for others for His sake, it is not possible to lose, in any final sense, anything worth keeping. We will lose ourselves and our selfishness. We will gain everything worth having.”

Loneliness Surrender To God

Book:The Path of Loneliness: Finding Your Way Through the Wilderness to God

Source: The Path of Loneliness: Finding Your Way Through the Wilderness to God

“Here is the burden of my argument with life. I have forgotten homesickness.”

Loneliness Traveling Jet Lag

Book:Restlessness

Source: Restlessness

“There is a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I’ve got to see my friends because I’m too content with myself.”

Loneliness

Author:Drew Barrymore

“Sometimes one needs to stay alone, a little bit of time in loneliness gives you the opportunity to knock on the door to your brain, and it opens to a sudden bright idea. But those who never stay alone don't even know what's inside their brains.”

Opportunity Brain Loneliness Idea Door Bright

Author:Ego Marvis

“No less romantically than Rapunzel in her tower pined for rescue did I pine for this idealized being, a kind of alternate me, a me outside of me. A shining one who would somehow at once be my familiar, my deepest intimate, and at the same time exist thrillingly apart.”

Loneliness Connection Soulmate

Book:No Book but the World

Source: No Book but the World

“I am finding out gradually why I am so lonely. The only things I care about are things which use my brain. The women I meet are not so much interested and I do not meet many men, so there is an intellectual solitude which is like the solitude of the desert — dangerous to one's sanity.”

Men Women Loneliness Solitude Intellect

Author:Clelia Duel Mosher

“Sometimes, when I had to be alone, was when I was the loneliest. There are times people or events put others in a place where they have no one. Not a single friend or family member who is there for them. They want to reach out for help, they long for it, but there is no one there. Just an empty void, a constant reminder of how isolated you are.”

Loneliness Lonely

Book:Heat

Source: Heat

“Ozi made me feel so known. He made love to my insides, filling desperate gaps and calming unbearably sensitive places.”

Love Loneliness Fulfillment

Book:Moth Smoke

Source: Moth Smoke

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