“I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.”
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“Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.”
“Better be alone than in bad company.”
“It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.”
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.”
“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”
“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.”
“Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?”
“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”
“Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.”
“Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.”
“Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.”
“Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.”
“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”
“As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.”
“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.”
“Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.”
“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”
“If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.”
“Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.”
“A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.”
“We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.”
“Victims always feel alone and helpless.”