The Art of Being ALONE Quotes

“Romanticize the actions that you take for yourself. Acknowledge your desires and turn them into something better than your imagination. It’s all about making an effort for yourself.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“Make your life like a garden where you have all types of people and interests and hobbies so that you always have something or someone to love and receive love. Have friends you adore, enjoy the hobbies you are passionate about, water your plants, and love your pets. Create things and build that relationship around you that keeps you excited so that love is always around you in every form. Life will be more colorful that way”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“We try hard to be NICE. We try to be good to people even when they are abusive to us because that’s what good people do, right? And this trial period keeps draining you because how can you be good all the time? How can you love others when you are hurt yourself? How can you be kind when you need to help yourself? You keep trying to meet the criteria of being a good person until you kill something inside you. And then suddenly you realize, oh, I need healing?”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“« You’ll stop worrying what others think about you when you realize how seldom they do. »”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“Learn to define your definition of everything. Don’t make your life a wishlist of what you think everyone has.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“Read books of every genre. If you want to learn to live a better life, read self-help books. If you want to learn how to think better, read great philosophers. If you want to become mentally strong, read spiritual books. If you want to spice up your life, read fantasy. If you want to understand humans, read fiction. Books have it all.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“If there is anything that can be crueller than death, it’s nurturing false hope in your heart just to see them crushing every piece of you at the end.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“Stop feeling sorry for yourself because you don’t have enough people to post a cute selfie on the internet.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“I always loved spending time in my room, reading my books, and wandering to a distinct place that only I am aware of. That always felt luxurious to me.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“Why do you hate the idea of being with yourself so much that ‘the time you spend with yourself is now considered as loneliness'.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“« Being alone is a part of life, it’s a part of adulting. Your friends and mates cannot stay with you for the rest of your life. Life moves pretty fast and everyone is trying to run faster so that they aren’t left behind. The simple truth of life is, people leave, for good or bad, and life goes on. Some people will leave for a better job opportunity while there will be sometimes when you will have to leave people for career growth. And then there will be times when people will get bored of you and they will find another toy to play with. That’s how it is.Can you do something about it? Probably No. But you can do one thing and that is stop feeling sorry for yourself. Stop thinking that there is something wrong with you that needs to be fixed. »”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“« Though, what I realized over time is thatIt’s not pathetic to be alone. I realized that we don’t hate being alone. We hate to believe that we are left behind.  »”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“« The fear of loneliness was injected into our minds since we were kids. We have learned that the kid who eats alone, sits alone, and has no friends is pathetic. In every book or movie, the kid who is eating alone, and has no friend is always featured as a weak character who needs to be saved. Pick any book or movie, and you will observe a common pattern around loneliness in all of them. These people were shown as easy targets or an object of your sympathy. »”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“But if I ask you (or you ask anyone around you), what success looks like to you, either you wouldn’t have an answer or you will say ‘Well, I want to make a lot of money, live in a nice luxurious house, give my parents and loved ones a comfortable life, travel across the world and be happy.’ How funny and sad at the same time. If all of us are different then how can our dream life look exactly the same? Because we are clowns.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“Taylor Swift said once, ‘The scary news is, you are on your own now. But the cool news is, you are on your own now.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“read”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“What do I think of myself? What are my opinions about myself? What do I like and don’t like? What are my fears? What are some things that I want to do in my day-to-day life yet I don’t because I have become an expert at silencing my inner voice?”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“And this reminds me that even though we all want to be good and nice, we sympathize more with the villain of any web series or book. WHY? Villains show us that we all can be bad at times, not intentionally but because we are designed to feel all kinds of emotions.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“There are some days when you miss yourself more than you have ever missed anyone else.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“You have to first come home to yourself, feel comfortable with your own company and become interesting for yourself so that you are not waiting or putting yourself on hold for others to adopt you.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“But one harsh truth about that is you cannot find your soul friends with desperate energy.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“The first myth that you need to unlearn is to stop believing that you are lonely just because you are alone.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“You’ll stop worrying what others think about you when you realize how seldom they do.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“« After college, you don’t make friends. You just network.  »”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“« your biggest enemy and critic is no one else but YOU.Before anyone else, you know what you are up to, and before anyone can, you pass judgments on your next move based on ‘what you think people will think of you’Look around you, no one’s judgments are louder than your own in your life. »”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“Take it as your assignment or task or whatever you want to call it. Sit down every day for 5 minutes, alone with no disturbance around you. Let yourself be immersed in your personality. Write down one or two things that you think you don’t like and then write why you don’t like those things. It will help you to know your values, hence, getting closer to yourself a little. Not only that, but you will also understand that you are not a follower and that you don’t accept every definition that’s been thrown at you. It will help you THINK INDEPENDENTLY without accepting the world’s definition.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“To be able to create your dream life ONE DAY, you will have to act like your dream version every day.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“Don’t let time slip from your hands. Educate yourself, train yourself and most of all have fun with yourself.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“Books are more interesting than you can imagine. Read books of every genre. If you want to learn to live a better life, read self-help books. If you want to learn how to think better, read great philosophers. If you want to become mentally strong, read spiritual books. If you want to spice up your life, read fantasy. If you want to understand humans, read fiction. Books have it all. Read books and feed your brain. In your free time, or what you call ‘alone time’, take out a book and read at least 5 pages. Allow yourself to drown in the pool of words. Read books on the topics that pique your interest. Read books written by your industry expert and learn what they have learned after spending decades working. Read books written by people who inspire you and make yourself a tiny part of them by consuming their words. Enough of excuses and drama. You have got so much to look forward to. So much to grow and learn. And books are the easiest way to learn and grow in life.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage

“Books are powerful and words hold the power to change your entire life” I have lived that quote. My life is the epitome of this one quote. Books have transformed me. Books helped me understand myself and the world. Books helped me feed my brain with the knowledge and wisdom of those who have experienced more than me in life. Books helped me learn from the mistakes of others and learn to be kind and empathetic. Books made me smarter. Books fueled the air of wisdom in me and with every exhale, I became confident and more successful in life. Books are not boring. Books are magical. They hold the power to transform YOU into your dream version. And most importantly, books are our best friend. They don’t leave you like people do. If you read a book, its knowledge is going to be with you forever and during the time of need, it will guide you. That’s what you expect from a friend, don’t you? You want your best friend to be honest with you. Well, books are honest with you. They show you the mirror while helping you become better at the same time. During the times when I needed someone to guide me, I found the wisdom of books to guide me in every aspect of life.”
― Renuka Gavrani, The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage