alone-but-not-lonely

Lonely and Alone: There's a difference.

Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold like death

We are not lonely, because we chose to be alone.We are not lost, because we chose to disappear.

My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that needs to be gotten [sic] rid of.

Brian Doyle about the Irish custom of __aking to the bed._ He says __n Irish culture, taking to the bed with a gray heart is not considered especially odd. People did and do it for understandable reasons__ll health, or the black dog, or, most horrifyingly, to die during An Gorta Mor, the great hunger, when whole families took to their beds to slowly starve_And in our time: I know a woman who took to her bed for a week after September eleventh, and people who have taken to their beds for days on end to recover from shattered love affairs, the death of a child, a physical injury that heals far faster than the psychic wound gaping under it. I__e done it myself twice, once as a youth and once as a man, to think through a troubled time in my marriage. Something about the rectangularity of the bed, perhaps, or supinity, or silence, or timelessness; for when you are in bed but not asleep there is no time, as lovers and insomniacs know. Yet, anxious, heartsick, we take to the bed, saddled by despair and dissonance and disease, riddled by muddledness and madness, rattled by malaise and misadventure, and in the ancient culture of my forbears this was not so unusual_.For from the bed we came and to it we shall return, and our nightly voyages there are nutritious and restorative, and we have taken to our beds for a thousand other reasons, loved and argued and eater and seethed there, and sang and sobbed and suckled, and burned with fevers and visions and lust, and huddled and howled and curled and prayed. As children we all, every one of us, pretended the bed was a boat; so now, when we are so patently and persistently and daily at sea, why not seek a ship? p. 119-20Brian Doyle in The Wet Engine: Exploring the Mad Wild Miracle of the Heart, p. 90-91

A writer is never alone, he is always with himself

Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there's one person who never ceased to love you - yourself.

There is lonely, and there is alone time. I have found that both have etched character upon my soul.

We walk alone in the wilderness.

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.

People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth

I am happy to be alone. Perhaps this is true. Or perhaps I am the biggest coward of all.

I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups.

Rule #1 of Traveling-Don't even think of answering questions that contain the word "plan"?

Just imagine, life to be a dance with different kind of rhythms depending on what music is playing in the background. Sometimes we may dance alone and that__ OK, as some songs are simply meant to be danced like that. Practice! Don__ stop! It__ your dance!_

Im that tree who is alone and the most greener compared to those brown forest

Majority is not always right. The fact that many people are in support of a wrong thing does not make the thing right. After all, the number of persons who with poor reasoning capacity is higher than those with better reasoning capacity.I don't read or care about majority's stance on a particular issue before expressing mine. I look at issues critically before expressing mine, not minding the reaction of majority.There are more foolish people than there are wise people. People who think deeply and critically are fewer compared to those with poor thinkingI can handle majority but can't handle my conscience

Majority is not always right. The fact that many people are in support of a wrong thing does not make the thing right. After all, the number of persons with poor reasoning capacity is higher than those with better reasoning capacity.I don't read or care about majority's stance on a particular issue before expressing mine. I look at issues critically before expressing mine, not minding the reaction of majority.There are more foolish people than there are wise people. People who think deeply and critically are fewer compared to those with poor thinkingI can handle majority but can't handle my conscience