some thoughts that were instructional to me and gave me comfort-
*The person who spoke most cruelly to her was her. She decided she would start speaking kindly to herself, replacing any negative words with positive ones. She would choose language that supported, nurtured, motivated and, as often as she could, make her smile. That’s how you treat someone you love. - Kathy Kinney
*"May those who love us love us - and those who do not loves us, may God turn their hearts, and if He cannot turn their hearts may he turn their ankles, that we may know them by their limping." - Irish prayer
*There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable-
So great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings.
Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this -
That in immensity there is one lonelier than you."
"Perhaps in the end, all that matters is this: that even to loneliness, there is an end." [Theodore Sturgeon- 1918-1985]
*"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company." - Jean-Paul Sartre
*"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
*"Nothing hurts a good soul and the kind heart more than to live amongst people who can’t understand it." ~ Ali Ibn Abi Taalib
*"There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much." — Mother Teresa
*"“You, he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.” - Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls