You will have a life of loneliness if the desire to be loved and to belong is more important than your self-respect.

Dodinsky

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Chasing after your dreams is lonely. No one will understand your struggles. Such sacrifices are silent and without rewards. You must be content within your own being.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

The only way to survive is to admit you are on your own, learn to make your own decisions, and trust your judgement.

Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.

There is some kind of sweet innocence in being human, in not having to be just happy or just sad, in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

I might be alone, but I'm never lonely.

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