I Am Alone. Quotes
Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.
Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds.
There are two types of people in the world, someone believes in love and someone does not:~>
Texting is more direct. You don't have to use conversation filler.
Past experiences are doubtful food for Christians
Paige had a sadness that was so desperate that it could not yet turn into anger.
Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.
The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become.
The world is now being dominated by few Giant organizations that influence and dectate our consuming behavior.
The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people.
Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions
Strike the rock and the water will flow
If you want victory in your life you must learn to be alone with your own thoughts and cause them to be correct thoughts!
From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were - I have not seenAs others saw - I could not bringMy passions from a common spring -
This is what's so terrifying about being lonely: the instinctive sense that it is literally repulsive, inhibiting contact at just the moment contact is most required.
Collapse, spread, merging, union: these things sound like the opposite of loneliness, and yet intimacy requires a solid sense of self to be successful and satisfying.
There are kinds of solitude that provide a respite from loneliness, a holiday if not a cure.
Why do you put yourself in unsafe places? Because something in you feels fundamentally devoid of worth.
What does it feel like to be lonely? It feels like being hungry: like being hungry when everyone around you is readying for a feast.
We go from curiosity to a search for communion.
Loneliness is not lack of companion
Who told you that your journey was a thousand miles
It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.
We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home.
It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my eyes tightly against the memory that is threatening to surface. I can't br
Love doesn’t conquer all
I notice young girls picking flowers off her gravestone
Addiction is to the habits of mind that technology allows us to practice.
As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts.
She had set it on the Internet, its own peculiar echo chamber.
This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by "solving" it without addressing it.
Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in.
I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it.
I don't respect thinking that is dangerous, prejudicial, childish, and could get me killed.
Children make theories when they are confused or anxious.
When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests – personal metrics to reassure themselves.
Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?
I am diagonally parked among the vertically parallel people of this horizontal universe.
Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself.
That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time
We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us.
We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.
Underestimation has its uses.
I love you just the way you arebut you don't see you like I do.You shouldn't try so hard to be perfect.Trust me, perfect should try to be you.
I was always a stranger at home, in all the places I ever lived.
Those straight-spined parishioners could justify their exhibitionism by telling themselves that they were setting an example, even educating the rest of us.