"Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else."

-- Lillian Hellman

#Lonely Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Most love stories are nocturnal. That's what makes them so fascinating.”
“There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.”
“When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.”
“If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last.”
“The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.”
“A few honest men are better than numbers.”

Source : Letter to Sir William Spring, September 1643, in Thomas Carlyle 'Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches' (2nd ed., 1846)
“One of the hardest parts of practice is the criticism a player takes from his coaches. Some players think a coach has it in for them when a flaw in style is pointed out ... I know that when things start going wrong, for one, I get the coach to keep his eye on me to see what I'm suddenly doing wrong. I can't see it or I wouldn't be doing it in the first place.”
“[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.”

Source : John D MacDonald (2013). “Travis McGee: Books 4-6: Introduction by Lee Child”, p.251, Random House

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