“Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail.”
John Berendt book The City of Falling Angels
Source: The City of Falling Angels
Source: It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy
“Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail.”
John Berendt book The City of Falling Angels
Source: The City of Falling Angels
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“Being someone is being one alone. Being someone is loneliness.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Ser alguien es ser alguien solo. Ser alguien es soledad.
Voces (1943)
“If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ
Frances McDormand (1957) American actress
Explaining her closing comment on the importance of the two words of ""inclusion rider"" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGa0jC5KHNM, in her 90th Oscars backstage interview (4 March 2018) http://www.oscars.org/press/90th-oscars-backstage-interview-transcript-actress-leading-role<!-- video of interview available for download at the official Oscar site --> <br class="br">Context: I just found out about this last week. There is — has always been available to all — everybody … that does a negotiation on a film, an ""inclusion rider"" which means that you can ask for and/or demand at least 50 percent diversity in not only the casting, but also the crew. And so, the fact that we — that I just learned that after 35 years of being in the film business … we're not going back. So the whole idea of women ""trending"" — no. No ""trending"". African Americans ""trending"" — no. No ""trending"". It changes now, and I think the inclusion rider will have something to do with that.
“Many harebrained interpretations were also widely available, especially in weekly newspapers.”
Carl Sagan book Contact
Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 13 (p. 216)
“Just because you are available for a relationship doesn't mean you are ready for one.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 97
David C. McClelland (1917–1998) American psychological theorist
David C. McClelland (1998) in: Katherine Adams, "Interview by David C. McClelland , in Competency, vol. 4 no.3, Spring 1997, pp.18–23; Republished in orientamento.it http://www.orientamento.it/indice/interview-with-mcclelland/, 19/11/2015