When people suffer tortures of
loneliness it is essentially loneliness of heart. Like all other normal
persons they long to be loved. But nothing is more futile in such a
situation than simply to sit down and wait for someone to come along
and love us. That way lies despair. What we can do is to awaken to
the fact that all around us are people who also long to be loved, and
that we have love to give them if we will but be generous. They may not
seem very attractive people, but in that case they only need our love
the more. Is it not being loved that makes people lovely! And when
women rouse themselves to use their own love generously for others,
they begin--always--to find the doors of deliverance opening.
A further very great step will have been taken when it is realized that
the life force which is not going to have its normal and natural outlet
need not on that account be wasted. It can be directed to other ends
with enormous benefit to the world. I cannot hope to say anything on
this point one-half so adequate or so helpful as the chapter Miss
Royden has already written in _Sex and Common Sense_.
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