Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.
It can be really lonely running for office, especially if you've never done it before and especially when all the normal channels of power are basically closed to you.
Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.
Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.
It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'
It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!
What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool at night?
In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.
The heart of Jesus is compassionate and understanding. It has felt the sting of ingratitude, and when my heart suffers from that same offense, I can turn to him, and he understands my feelings.
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
If Atheists are lonely and downtrodden, we have only ourselves to blame. Numerically, we are strong. Let's start punching our weight.
I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.
I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.
In general, my rule is find out where your heart is, then speak from the heart. People know the difference between that and something scripted.
To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.
The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.
The question is not whether you would like to pray this prayer and ask Jesus to come into your heart - after all, you know, the handle to your heart is on the inside and if you do not open it Jesus cannot come in. My friend, Jesus is Lord of your heart and if He wants to come in, He will kick the door down.
...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument
When you give your heart and you give it to God, where your treasure is, that's where your heart is. And so you put your heart in your hand which is in the form of monetary- or money, or offering, and you say, 'God! Here it is!'
I was feeling kind of lonely and started singing All alone at the end of the evening, and the bright lights have faded to blue.' And it went from there.
I always wish for the audience to feel less lonely when they leave the room. To have the film as a companion, as a shelter for themselves.
My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
Being Christlike guarantees that you'll have the most important friend of all: the Savior. He knows what it's like to be misunderstood, lonely, and rejected.
L.A. has great business opportunities for my film and TV production company and acting career, but it can be a very lonely place.
You will always have a tough fight when you are expressing yourself and not impressing people. The path of truth is a lonely journey.
It can be tough and lonely on the road, but at the end of the day we get to play professional tennis for a living, and I wouldn't change it for the world.
Maybe he's lonely. Sebastian can't be the greatest company." "We don't know that. He could be absolutely fantastic at Scrabble," said Magnus.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.
Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.
We canot become nonviolent on the basis of intellectual conviction. Commitment to nonviolence demands a very profound conversion of mind and heart. If we take the time to pray with Jesus, we too will be converted in mind and heart. It won?t work if we try to reason it out. The only way is through a change of heart, a coming into a way of being that is the way of Jesus.
It's really lonely trying to build something by yourself. It's good to have thought partners to bounce ideas off of.
People know who I am, but I'm feeling so lonely in the middle area, because I feel like I should be at the top.
I have immense respect for Nitesh sir and really admire his work. He's one of my closest friends in the industry, with whom I can have a heart-to-heart chat.
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.
A relationship with Christ changes your heart. It's not about your head. It changes your heart. Jesus comes to live in your heart, and even if a person does good works, but they do them without Christ, most of the time, their motives are wrong for why they do them.
Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one.
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
When I hear a company is being run by a team, my heart sinks, because you need to have that leader with a vision and heart that can move things forward.
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.
Our aim - our only aim - is to be at home in Christ. He's not a roadside park or hotel room. He's our permanent mailing address. Christ is our home. He's our place of refuge and security. We're comfortable in his presence, free to be our authentic selves. We know our way around in him. We know his heart and his ways. We rest in him, find our nourishment in him. His roof of grace protects us from storms of guilt. His walls of providence secure us from destructive winds. His fireplace warms us during the lonely winters of life. We linger in the abode of Christ and never leave.
Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart Cries.
I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.
...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.
The role of a founder-CEO is extremely lonely. You can't always be fully forthcoming with your board or investors or employees.
Cultivate the heart to raise a harvest of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love. This crop has to be raised in your heart and should be shared with others.
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.
If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
Making albums is a very lonely process sometimes. Sitting around working on songs, feeling the pressure.
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.
Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened.
arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.
I was lonely as a young teenager and my only companion was an acoustic guitar. I would bring it with me on modeling trips.
The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.
Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.
And yeah, it got better. My stomach eventually went back to normal. I didn’t cry every day. But my heart. My heart will always be broken.
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