Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.
Mandy HaleTags: self-worth alone independence aloneness finding-yourself positive-thinking self-love loving-yourself single-life being-single the-single-woman alone-but-not-lonely single-woman valuing-yourself
There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.
Mandy HaleTags: life beauty journey faith loneliness alone aloneness positive-thinking single singleness loving-yourself single-life solo being-single flying-solo the-single-woman single-woman trust-the-journey
A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.
Mandy HaleTags: loneliness alone seasons isolation transition lonely aloneness positive-thinking single butterfly singleness metamorphosis being-alone caterpillar single-life seasons-of-life being-single the-single-woman single-woman becoming-who-you-re-meant-to-be
If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.
Mandy HaleTags: life strength journey courage loneliness self-worth alone independence gifts lonely aloneness finding-yourself positive-thinking self-love being-yourself loving-yourself feeling-alone embracing-who-you-are faith-in-yourself knowing-yourself
That’s exactly what I’ll do, I thought to myself. After dinner, I’m going to ask Big
Brother to teach me how to read this map. With Aunt Baba still in Tianjin, there’s
obviously nobody looking out for me. I’ll just have to find my own way.
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But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
bell hooksTags: fear love solitude loneliness community escape relationship aloneness
Aloneness and all-oneness is our authentic nature. We are always alone and all-one. We came into this planet alone and all-one. We will leave alone and all-one. And also during our whole staying in this world, no matter how we engage in relationships, we continue to be alone and all-one, though we may forget about it or pretend it is not the case.
True love has nothing to do with the idea that someone is the other half of my soul and that I need him or her in order to be whole and feel complete. Only when we can be alone and all-one with someone there is true love, regardless of whether that someone is still with us or not.
And yet... I miss you...
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At first the lives of women frightened me. They seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I noticed how supple their lives were beneath the surface. I saw, too, that sooner or later, by choice or by chance most women faced the task of adapting to a future on their own. When at my most optimistic, I thought of it as independence, in darker moods, as survival. Either way, women had to do it.
Alice SteinbachYou want to know what I really learned? I learned that people don’t consider time alone as part of their life. Being alone is just a stretch of isolation they want to escape from. I saw a lot of wine-drinking, a lot of compulsive drug use, a lot of sleeping with the television on. It was less festive than I anticipated. My view had always been that I was my most alive when I was totally alone, because that was the only time I could live without fear of how my actions were being scrutinized and interpreted. What I came to realize is that people need their actions to be scrutinized and interpreted in order to feel like what they’re doing matters. Singular, solitary moments are like television pilots that never get aired. They don’t count. This, I think, explains the fundamental urge to get married and have kids[…]. We’re self-conditioned to require an audience, even if we’re not doing anything valuable or interesting. I’m sure this started in the 1970s. I know it did. I think Americans started raising offspring with this implicit notion that they had to tell their children, “You’re amazing, you can do anything you want, you’re a special person.” [...] But—when you really think about it—that emotional support only applies to the experience of living in public. We don’t have ways to quantify ideas like “amazing” or “successful” or “lovable” without the feedback of an audience. Nobody sits by himself in an empty room and thinks, “I’m amazing.” It’s impossible to imagine how that would work. But being “amazing” is supposed to be what life is about. As a result, the windows of time people spend by themselves become these meaningless experiences that don’t really count. It’s filler.
Chuck KlostermanTags: social loneliness human-nature alone sociology aloneness
Now, as an adult, my hopes for the future were simple: I wanted to be alone, and to be surrounded by flowers. It seemed, finally, that I might get exactly what I wanted.
Vanessa DiffenbaughTags: adulthood desires wants aloneness hopes
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