Anneli Rufus Quotes

#1. In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.

Seth Godin

#2. Alone, we are alive.

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#3. What did they call you that you weren't? What did they never say about you that you were?

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#4. Generalization is impossible. It is an insult.

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#5. People say the desert is desolate. Yet for me it's very much alive, full of surprises. As soon as I see those wide-open spaces, I can breathe,

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#6. Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. America trembles in fear of loners, yet Charles Manson is a social butterfly.

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#8. I would never filibuster any President's judicial nominee, period. I might vote against them, but I will always see they came to a vote.

Saxby Chambliss

#9. We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.

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#10. A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

C.S. Lewis

#11. NONLONERS BORROW A term from Jung and call us introverts. They think it makes them sound intelligent to say so.

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#12. Not that I was incapable of friendship. 'Don't be shy', the teachers coaxed. I was not shy, only extremely choosy. And Denise shone like a diamond. If you had to ask me to define paradise, I would have said a desert island which Denise could visit, on a boat.

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#13. One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and I did that, and the time we have spent on our knees has been the stabilizing factor throughout nearly forty years of marriage.

James Dobson

#14. That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

Peter J. Carroll

#15. They say isolation drives you crazy. Sure it does-when you can't get enough of it.

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#16. Is socializing all that great? Riots are socializing. Arguably, more damage is done and time wasted in company with others than alone.

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#17. The whole world is a personality cult.

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#18. We believe that whatever feels at first like joy is not. Or is, but will not last. Or should not last. We feel so sure of this that we will undermine our own inklings of joy, blunting the pain we think awaits.

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#19. A cormorant broke the surface, like an improbable idea tearing the membrane between dreams and life.

Peter Carey

#20. Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.

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#21. Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob gets too close, the truth is revealed. Running or walking away, chased or free, any which way, we tell the mob in effect I don't need you.

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#22. When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I often felt most surely the divine power in this name, Jesus Christ ... So, by God's grace, I will live and die for that name.

Martin Luther

#23. The joy of a return is worth the price one pays at the moment of departure.

Andrea Bocelli

#24. Are we going to just change the personalities in the speakership? Or are we going to fundamentally transform the way we do business here in Washington, D.C.?

Dan Webster

#25. The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.

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#26. Loners can play well with others-the right others,

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#27. Some of us have spent our whole lives committing suicide. And some of us survived.

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#28. We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.

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#29. Yet introverts and loners are not one and the same thing.

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#30. To give importance to trifling matters.

John Heywood

#31. And yet what has been learned can be unlearned.

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#32. After what others would call a fun day out together, we feel as if we have been at the Red Cross, donating blood.

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#33. There is only one place to find real peace, real harmony. That place is within,

Keith Ferrazzi

#34. You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.

Paul Samuelson

#35. To this day, I have a very unhealthy relationship with food. I have an eating disorder; not in that I am anorexic or bulimic - I'm not - but in the sense that I feel extremely guilty every time I eat anything that isn't water. Of course I have body issues.

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#36. The poem springs from the half spoken words of the patient ... When asked, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing.

William Carlos Williams