Top 1200 Lonely Path Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

If only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place.

I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.

I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.

If we don't teach kids how to be alone, they will end up only lonely.

I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.

I am interested in the possibility that we are going to be wrong in the same way that history has indicated that mankind always is. It seems as though the history of ideas is the history of being wrong. And to me, that is a kind of continuum. It's a continual path that shows we don't always know something, but we're always shifting to a path that makes us feel more comfortable in the moment, even if that shift is wrong, and a new shift is destined to happen again.

If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose that is asking for too much.

From a policy point of view, I don't think it's the right approach. I don't like the idea of having millions of people here for their entire life without being able to assimilate into America...From a political point of view, we've got 55 Democrats sent and a 72 percent support for a path to citizenship. It's just not practical to think we'll be able to pass any bill in the United States Senate without a path to citizenship.

International sport is a lonely journey. You compete with one's self and try to grow as a cricketer.

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I'm on the pollen path.'

The road can become a very lonely place. It's not what it's cracked up to be. Of course, it's what you make it.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Once refugee children are in the U.K., adapting to their new surroundings can be a lonely and demoralising experience.

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

I'm always wearing Spanx, eating ice cream and feeling a bit lonely.

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.

The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.

That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there.

What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing

When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come or go wherever she wisheth, let death overtake him today or after a century, the wise man never swerves from the path of rectitude." Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune smile or frown upon you, let your body fall today or after a Yuga, see that you do not deviate from the path of Truth.

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

There were times when i felt in a slump or lonely but i never thought of giving up

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

Many people feel that if they're lonely, that means that they're not likable or that they're broken in some way.

maybe the lonely places are the only things that make human beings of us all.

The lonely heart you see tonight will not give up without a fight.

Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?

I am lonely. I clean up the house, put kids to bed and there I sit.

Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.

Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.

I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.

You will go with me everywhere. When I'm dreaming, you still share my lonely nights.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.

I've been afraid of being Cansrel,' she said aloud to her reflection. 'But I'm not Cansrel.' At her elbow, Musa said blandly, 'Any one of us could have told you that, Lady.' Fire looked at the captain of her guard and laughed, because she wasn't Cansrel- she wasn't anyone but herself. She had no one's path to follow; her path was her own to choose.

Walking your path doesn't mean you don't hurt, it means the pain is worth the progress. Sometimes you have to break something down in order to remake it, and that includes yourself, or it did for me. There were moments when I wept for an easier road, but in the end I would not trade my path for anyone else's. It is mine and the traveling of it has made me who I am, and continues to shape and remold me into the best, happiest, most productive, most playful me, I've ever been.

Finding God in all things is not an 'empirical eureka.' When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him immediately by an empirical method. But you cannot meet God this way...A contemplative attitude is necessary: it is the feeling that you are moving along the good path of understanding and affection toward things and situations. Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God, and love of all things in God-this is the sign that you are on this right path.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

It's a very dangerous and lonely thing, I imagine, to be a spy: to have friendships that are deceptions, that are not honest.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.

The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.

You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.

Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.