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"A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time."
"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it."
"Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring."
"Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion."
"Be the kind of person you would like to be with. Some people come into our lives, make footprints on our hearts and we are never the same. People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges."
"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work."
"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."
"We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."
"No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't."
"If you ever feel lonely and feel that no one loves you and cares for you - remember me."
"It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity."
"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment."
"Be good and you will be lonely."
"We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet."
"Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work."
"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter."
"Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will occur along life's way and all that is required is the willingness to act when the time comes. The needs of the neighbor, especially those of the weak and downtrodden, the victimized and the persecuted, the ill and the lonely, will become abundantly evident."
"When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone."
"Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames."
"We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers."
