R09 · Loneliness and Solitude
Loneliness and social disconnection
Painful isolation, feeling unseen in a crowd, or substituting shallow contact for genuine bond.
Cues
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“A wise person can be self-sufficient and still desire a friend, a neighbour and a companion.”
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”
“To help others and be eager to share, not to be a pessimist, and never to doubt your friends’ affection for you.”
“I sacrifice myself for my profession, my wife, my children, or, more properly expressed, I do not sacrifice myself for them, but I find in them my satisfaction and joy.”
“I know that it gives one great inner force, calmness, and happiness to communicate with such great thinkers as Socrates, Epictetus, Arnold, Parker. ... They tell us about what is most important for humanity, about the meaning of life and about virtue.”
“No place of banishment can be found in the whole world in which man cannot find a home.”
“I am less convinced that intimate personal relationships are the only source of health and happiness. In the present climate, there is a danger that love is being idealized as the only path to salvation. When Freud was asked what constituted psychological health, he gave as his answer the ability to love and work. We have over-emphasized the former, and paid too little attention to the latter ...”