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Things no one probably have told you yet (comics by Alex Noriega)

Things that are hard to say are usually the most important.

Find someone with whom you can laugh about everything and the rest will be fine.

No one will grant your wishes. You better make them happen.

Save some time to be lazy. It’s good for you.

Thinking too much about a problem won’t make it necessarily easier to solve.

“Hello” is the most powerful word against loneliness.

You can’t get rid of your fears… but you can learn to live with them.

Challenge yourself a little bit everyday.

Quotes about being Single

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.– Anonymous

I’m single because I was born that way.– Anonymous

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.– Anonymous

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.– Anonymous

If you are single there is always one thing you should take out with you on a Saturday night… your friends.– Anonymous

I think, therefore I’m single.– Anonymous

I don’t need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we’ll ever have is the one with ourselves.

Sometimes you have to stand alone to prove that you can still stand.– Anonymous

Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free till they find someone just as wild to run with them.– Anonymous

No time to marry, no time to settle down. I’m a young woman, and I ain’t done running around.– Anonymous

Better to be quirky alone than unhappy together.– Anonymous

Everyone is lonely sometimes, even married people. But most single women (as well as women with spouses) actually enjoy their solitude.– Anonymous

Being single isn’t the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.– Anonymous

Married women are just as capable of misery as singles, and single women are just as capable of happiness as married women. Both are capable of feeling loneliness and boredom and the weight of dependence.– Anonymous

Live to love, not love to live.– Anonymous

I don’t like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone. – Delta Burke

A woman needs a man like a fish needs bicycle. – Anonymous

The Love Letter

“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

Living Quotes

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. – Helen Keller

You’re only here for a short visit. So don’t forget to stop and smell the roses. – Walter Hagen

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. – Joseph Campbell

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn

Life is a long lesson in humility. – James M. Barrie

“Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path. – Khalil Gibran

Living QuotesNothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. – Paul Tournier

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…
It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. – Khalil Gibran

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. – Mother Teresa

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. – Lord Chesterfield

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. – The Buddha

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. – Lee Ann Womack

 

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. – Anne Frank

 

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. – The Buddha

What’s done is done. – William Shakespeare

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. – Mother Teresa

Be gentle first with yourself. – Lama Yeshe

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. – Anonymous

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. – Joseph Campbell

Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional. – Buddhist proverb

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. – Mark Twain

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. – Brigitte Bardot

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. – Elie Wiesel

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. – Anonymous

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. – Mark Twain

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. – Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

Every wall is a door. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Feeling Lonely Quotes

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. – George Washington

Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. – Paul Tillich

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. – Mother Teresa

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. – Paul Tournier

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? – George Eliot

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self. – Brendan Francis Behan

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn’t subdue you and make you feel abject. It’s stimulating loneliness. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty. – Mason Cooley

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. – Henry David Thoreau

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. – Albert Schweitzer

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. – George Eliot

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Those we love don’t go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear. – Anonymous

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. – Albert Einstein

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely? – Judy Garland

If you’re feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. – Martha Beck

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. – Doug Coupland

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company. – Jean-Paul Sartre

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. – Wayne Dyer

If you tell the truth about how you’re feeling, it becomes funny. – Larry David

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. – Paul Theroux

If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right. – Jules Renard

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. – Anne Frank

Silence is a source of great strength. – Lao Tzu

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Every wall is a door. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage doesn’t always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
“I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. – Mark Twain

Music Quotes

– “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music” – Sergei Rachmaninov

– “A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” – Leopold Stokowski

– “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Berthold Auerbach

– “All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!” – Thomas Carlyle

– “If the King loves music, it is well with the land.” – Mencius

– “Without music life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

– “Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

– “If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.” – Gustav Mahler

– “Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?” – Michael Torke

– “He who sings scares away his woes.” – Cervantes

– “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” – Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name

– “Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.” – Benjamin Disraeli

– “Music is what feelings sound like.” – Unknown

Pain Quotes

Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional. – Buddhist proverb

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. – Epictetus

Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink
his remedy in silence and tranquility. – Khalil Gibran

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. – The Buddha

Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. – Paul Tillich

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. – Jim Carrey

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. – Henri Nouwen

No pain, No gain. – Anonymous

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. – Lance Armstrong (bicycle racer)

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. – Thomas Jefferson

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain – and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain. – Tony Robbins

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. – Julius Caesar

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. – Toni Morrison

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. – Joseph Campbell

Mark Twain Quotes #5

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.