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“Loneliness... has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world... because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more... connected to the seven billion other people.”

People World Mind Littles States Whole Earth Felt Cities Loneliness Planets Window Seven Connected Billions State Of Mind Location Centre

Author:Chris Hadfield

“The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State. Therefore an effective statement of these activities - e.g. science, art, religion - is in itself a declaration of ultimate aims around which the political means will crystallise... a society with no values outside of politics is a machine carrying its human cargo, with no purpose in its institutions reflecting their care, eternal aspirations, loneliness, need for love.”

Needs Humans Mean Art States Care Political Purpose Values Loneliness Activity Eternal Machines Ultimate Aim Institutions Statements Aspiration Declaration Framework Reflecting Cargo

Author:Stephen Spender

“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.”

“Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.”

States Reading Loneliness Absolutes Library Being Lonely

Author:William Styron

“Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.”

Kind States Grace Achieve Loneliness Standing Forgotten Fascination Egotistical

Book:The Fencing Master

Source: The Fencing Master

“It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.”

Knows States Conditions Loneliness Blind Corruption Bitter Permanent Contempt Bereavement Nothing New Bitter Love

Author:Gregory Maguire

“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.”

Mind States Situation Loneliness Illness State Of Mind

Book:The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Source: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

“People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.”

People States Loneliness Lonely Unions Being The Best Closest Being Alone Drains Alone Lonely

Author:Margaret Cho

“Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not financial problems. You are at ease with yourself. You are not at the mercy of unfulfilled cravings. Confusion is replaced with clarity. There is a relieving answer to every tormenting question. You possess a True Self. Something can be done about every unhappy condition. While living in the world you can be inwardly detached from its sorrows to live with personal peace and sanity.”

“Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.”

Men Feels States Passion Effort Loneliness Boredom Emptiness Occupation Bores Dependence Helplessness Inadequacy Diversion

Author:Blaise Pascal

“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.”

Love Mind States Loneliness Creation Acceptance Morality Demand Grateful Simplicity Appreciation Characteristics State Of Mind Selflessness Haiku Materiality Love And Courage

Author:Reginald Horace Blyth

“Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being degenerate into deathly specters of themselves. Solitude split off from community is no longer a rich and fulfilling experience of inwardness; now it becomes loneliness, a terrible isolation. Community split off from solitude is no longer a nurturing network of relationships; now it becomes a crowd, an alienating buzz of too many people and too much noise.”

Source: The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

“Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.”

States Feelings Differences Poor Loneliness Broke Being Broke

Author:Townes Van Zandt

“It is important to recognize the power of our emotions-and to take responsibility for them by creating a light and positive atmosphere around ourselves. This attitude of joy that we create helps alleviate states of hopelessness, loneliness, and despair. Our relationships with others thus naturally improve, and little by little the whole of society becomes more positive and balanced.”