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“You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now.”

Littles Turns Walks Mistake Love You Loneliness Cake Have Your Cake And Eat It Too

Author:Billy Joel

“We have forgotten love, and Sat lonely beside each other. We have eaten together, Lonely behind our plates, we Have hidden behind children, We have slept together in A lonely bed. Now my heart Turns toward you, awake at last, Penitent, lost in the last Loneliness. Speak to me. Talk To me. Break the black silence.”

Heart Children Together Lasts Turns Lost Speak Black Behinds Silence Break Loneliness My Heart Bed Lonely Forgotten Awake Sat Plates Talk To Me

Author:Kenneth Rexroth

“And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier.”

Thinking Wells Made Turns Waiting Sound Sleep Loneliness Cry Poet Clothes Bird This Life Ashamed Yellow Locks Steam Drawers Polaroids

Author:Conor Oberst

“In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. This is how kitsch works. It exploits familiar images, be they puppies or babies - or, as in the case of this movie, the twin towers - and tries to make us feel good, even virtuous, simply about feeling. And, yes, you may cry, but when tears are milked as they are here, the truer response should be rage.”

“So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be intensely alert. At first, it may seem like a dark and terrifying place, and when the urge to turn away from it comes, observe it but don’t act on it. Keep putting your attention on the pain, keep feeling the grief, the fear, the dread, the loneliness, whatever it is. Stay alert, stay present - present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body. As you do so, you are bringing a light into this darkness. This is the flame of your consciousness.”

Giving Feels Firsts May Whole Feelings Body Light Seems Pain Turns Dark Grief Attention Consciousness Darkness Loneliness Your Body Cells Flames Urges Dread Refrain Labeling

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“We remember what it was like to meet someone new. We remember what it was like to grant someone possibility. You look out from your own world and then you step into his, not really knowing what you’ll find there, but hoping it will be something good. Both Ryan and Avery are doing this. You step into his world and you don’t even realize your loneliness is missing. You’ve left it behind, and you don’t notice because you have no desire to turn back.”

World Looks Remember Desire Turns Left Realizing Behinds Steps Knowing Missing Loneliness Possibility Grants

Book:Two Boys Kissing

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.”

Way Turns Loneliness Lonely Guides Gentle Cheer Rays Feeling Lonely Hermits

Book:Goldsmith's miscellaneous works

Source: Goldsmith's miscellaneous works

“Often, feelings of sadness, uneasiness, and loneliness are vague and unattached to specific events. This makes it more challenging to find ways to turn you mood around. When you find yourself in a funk, focus on what you're feeling.”

Way Feelings Turns Challenges Emotion Focus Sadness Events Loneliness Mood Finding Yourself Vague Funk Uneasiness

Book:The Complete Idiot's Guide to Changing Old Habits for Good

Source: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Changing Old Habits for Good

“Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him .... How far the pupil will go is not the concern of the teacher and master. Hardly has he shown him the right way when he must let him go on alone. There is only one thing more he can do to help him endure his loneliness: he turns him away from himself, from the Master, by exhorting him to go further than he himself has done, and to "climb on the shoulders of his teacher."”

Way Done Helping Moving Turns Can Do Teacher One Thing Teaching Loneliness Masters Goes On Concern Endure Shoulders Dawn Climbs Mastery Right Way Pupils Let Him Go

Author:Eugen Herrigel

“Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a dark furred animal that grows and fills you; it kills off loneliness and takes its place.”

Feels Persons Moving Turns Left Grows Dark Loss Animal Grief Company Loneliness Hatred Rage Grief And Loss

Book:I Loved You All: A Novel

Source: I Loved You All: A Novel

“And not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now.”

Turns Fear Loneliness

Author:John J. Geddes