“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.” NeedsHumansMeanArtStatesCarePoliticalPurposeValuesLonelinessActivityEternalMachinesUltimateAimInstitutionsStatementsAspirationDeclarationFrameworkReflectingCargo Author:Stephen Spender
“What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problemsâthe meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.” IfsWorldHas BeensSelfShowsProblemValuesIndividualLonelinessLongingDeeperMeaning Of LifeLife And DeathSignificanceMasteryQuestsTranscendingDostoyevsky Author:J. I. Packer
“When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.” MeanValuesLonelinessSelf EsteemBearsBirthSolitudeCompanionSolitaryBeing AloneSingleBeing SingleLoneliness And SolitudeBeing Quiet Author:Eda LeShan
“Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.” AblePainValuesChallengesBeautyLonelinessLaughterAnd LoveSunsetFormulasMasteryArithmeticNature BeautyLove PainLove And Laughter Author:Louis Orr
“Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness... But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values - the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy.” KnowsWantValuesLossLove IsLove YouLonelinessTerribleEqualLosingTragedyPsychologicalDestructiveNeglectTriggersAbandonmentTerrible ThingsConstraintsEntitlementLosing Control Author:Michael Robotham
“Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.” LoveTwoGodValuesLonelinessPlanetsAchievementCreatingSeekingValuableGod LoveTwo ThingsPopeGod's LovePouringWinos Book:Credo Source: Credo
“Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.” FeelsHeartRealMomentsHomeValuesHalfLonelinessProudSolitudeEveningAshamedSomewhere ElseHighlightsDazzleTrue ValuePining Author:Tahir Shah
“My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.” KindImportantMomentsPainValuesGivenWealthLonelinessStrangeHungerThirstDesperationPlight Book:Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea Source: Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea