Alone With Everybody

“Not everyone who comes into our life is meant to stay. So stop holding onto people who clearly don’t want to be with you.”

“Don’t be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.”

“The funny thing is when you start feeling happy alone, that’s when everyone decides to be with you.”

“Life is a balance between rest and movement.”

“Words are so powerful. They can crush a heart, or heal it. They can shame a soul or liberate it. They can shatter dreams or energize them. They can obstruct connection or invite it. They can create defenses, or melt them. We have to use our words wisely.”

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”

“The strongest people have a past filled with chaos, heart break and disappointment.”

“Deep in my heart I know I am a loner. I have tried to blend in with the world or be more sociable, but the more people I meet the more disappointed I am. So I’ve learned to enjoy myself, my family, and a few good friends.”

“If you’ve been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle, then you’re a badass with the heart of an angel.”

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

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.

For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.