“How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?....The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended family we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness. Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely anymore.” PeopleThinkingWayBelievePersonsReasonEarthReligionFightingReligiousLonelinessAcceptanceLonelyArtificialCreedsArbitraryCongregationMembershipFleeingExtended Family Book:Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.” IfsHappinessSuccessFearInspiringLonelinessAcceptanceIntellectualLonelyPerseveranceExceptionalBeing LonelyBlack Motivational Author:Lorraine Hansberry
“The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.” WorstLonelinessSelf EsteemAcceptanceSolitudeComfortableLonelySelf AcceptanceLove YourselfBeing AloneLoving YourselfBeing LonelyAccepting YourselfLoneliness And SolitudeI Am LonelyLonely And AloneAlone LonelyLoneliness In Life Author:Mark Twain
“No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.” MatterLonelinessAcceptanceBirthLonelyTricksFrightenedBeing AloneAnnouncements Author:Wendy Wasserstein
“Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet I have found peace in my loneliest times not only through acceptance of the situation, but through making it an offering to God, who can transfigure it into something for the good of others.” SometimesFoundTermSituationLonelinessAcceptanceOfferingTidesHumannessOffering To God Author:Elisabeth Elliot
“These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage.” LoveMindStatesLonelinessCreationAcceptanceMoralityDemandGratefulSimplicityAppreciationCharacteristicsState Of MindSelflessnessHaikuMaterialityLove And Courage Author:Reginald Horace Blyth
“I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there... I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.” MenMadeHardWould BeFightingBlackMistakeLonelinessAcceptanceRespectAbuse Author:Jackie Robinson
“Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked.” RealPsychologySocietyLonelinessHonestyAcceptanceStrangeSolitudeUniqueNakedVulnerableHatedOddFakeIsolationMaskShyBe YourselfPeculiarIntrovertWeirdLonerOutcastOriginalHermitsAlienIndividualsNudeFrontPopulaceShunned Book:Healology Source: Healology