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“Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.”

Self Suffering Results Attitude Too Much Loneliness Source Extremes Isolation Self Centered Isolation And Loneliness

Author:Dalai Lama

“Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society.... As a result there is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in the novel--an intense awareness of human loneliness.”

Humans Stories Results Novel Awareness Loneliness Figures Intense Wander Characteristics Short Story Fringe

Author:Frank O'Connor

“Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to self-confidence, which reduces fear. This makes for constructive members of the community. Self-centredness on the other hand leads to distance, suspicion, mistrust and loneliness, with unhappiness as the result.”

“You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own inner expectations. If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be 'automatically' materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring about the conditions that will give them a reality in physical terms. If you would have good health then you must imagine this as vividly as you fearfully imagine ill health.”

“Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.”

World Two Desire Results Doors Loneliness Solitude Variety Rejects

Book:Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel

Source: Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel

“He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.”

“Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.”

People Giving Feelings Today Community Results Loneliness Depends Institutions Decent Belonging Plague Being Alone Crumbling Techno

Author:Alvin Toffler

“Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.”

Results Loneliness Caught Glimpse

Author:Nadeem Aslam

“The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.”

Humans Soul Games Results Loneliness Intimacy Human Soul Framed Proximity Neighbourhoods Rules Of The Game

Book:The Black Prince

Source: The Black Prince