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Voices for loneliness

These voices are best suited to loneliness — but every voice in FindOkay is still visible below.

Cicero

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Marcus Tullius Cicero (Ad Familiares, Shuckburgh translation, public domain).

Cicero

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Specializes in

  • career
  • leadership
  • purpose
  • loss
  • decision

Generated from

  • Stoic
  • Skeptic
  • Roman
John of the Cross

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with John of the Cross.

John of the Cross

"In the dark night, the soul receives pure contemplation and purification, removing all that is not God."

Specializes in

  • grief
  • purpose
  • anxiety
  • faith
  • stress

Generated from

  • Christian mysticism
  • Contemplative practice
  • Grief work
Pliny the Younger

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Pliny the Younger (Melmoth translation, public domain).

Pliny the Younger

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Specializes in

  • relationships
  • purpose
  • career
  • parenting

Generated from

  • Stoic
  • Humanist
  • Roman
John Adams

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with John Adams (Adams Family Correspondence and Adams–Jefferson letters, public domain).

John Adams

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Specializes in

  • leadership
  • purpose
  • career
  • parenting
  • faith
  • decision
  • retirement

Generated from

  • Enlightenment
  • Christian contemplative
  • Civic
Krishna

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Krishna.

Krishna

"Your right is only to perform your duty, and not to the fruit thereof. Let not the fruit of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • stress
  • relationships
  • career
  • faith
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Bhakti
  • Yoga philosophy
  • Advaita Vedanta
Liezi

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Liezi.

Liezi

"The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror; it grasps nothing, it refuses nothing, it receives but does not keep."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • purpose
  • self confidence
  • relationships
  • burnout

Generated from

  • Taoism
  • Zen
  • Nature connection
Abraham Lincoln

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in."

Specializes in

  • leadership
  • grief
  • purpose
  • stress
  • anxiety
  • relationships

Generated from

  • Indigenous wisdom
  • Existential meaning
  • Grief work
Maimonides

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Maimonides.

Maimonides

"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt advance."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • faith
  • anxiety
  • career
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Hasidic Judaism
  • Kabbalah
  • Logotherapy
Milarepa

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Milarepa.

Milarepa

"My religion is to live and die without regret."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • grief
  • purpose
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Buddhism
  • Tibetan Buddhism
  • Contemplative practice
Musonius Rufus

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Musonius Rufus.

Musonius Rufus

"If you accomplish anything good with hard work, the labor passes, but the good endures; if you do anything shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the shame endures."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • self confidence
  • purpose
  • relationships
  • burnout

Generated from

  • Stoicism
  • Contemplative practice
  • Self-inquiry
Nachman of Breslov

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Nachman of Breslov.

Nachman of Breslov

"The whole world is a very narrow bridge; the important thing is not to be afraid at all."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • grief
  • purpose
  • faith
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Hasidic Judaism
  • Kabbalah
  • Existential meaning
Lao Tzu

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Lao Tzu.

Lao Tzu

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

Specializes in

  • stress
  • burnout
  • career
  • retirement
  • leadership

Generated from

  • Taoism
  • Mindfulness
Nagarjuna

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Nagarjuna.

Nagarjuna

"Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • purpose
  • self confidence
  • burnout
  • grief

Generated from

  • Buddhism
  • Zen
  • Mindfulness
John Henry Newman

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with John Henry Newman.

John Henry Newman

"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • faith
  • self confidence
  • grief
  • anxiety

Generated from

  • Christian mysticism
  • Contemplative practice
  • Existential meaning
Rabia of Basra

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Rabia of Basra.

Rabia of Basra

"My God, if I worship You in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me thence."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • anxiety
  • stress
  • faith
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Sufism
  • Christian mysticism
  • Compassion practice
Chief Seattle

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Chief Seattle.

Chief Seattle

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • stress
  • anxiety
  • relationships
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Indigenous wisdom
  • Nature connection
  • Acceptance
Seneca

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Seneca.

Seneca

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

Specializes in

  • grief
  • anxiety
  • stress
  • purpose
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Stoicism
  • Cognitive reframing
  • Existential meaning
Adi Shankara

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Adi Shankara.

Adi Shankara

"Brahman is without beginning, without end, pure, beyond the beyond, there is no diversity in it."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • anxiety
  • grief
  • self confidence
  • faith

Generated from

  • Advaita Vedanta
  • Yoga philosophy
  • Self-inquiry
Mary Shelley

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Mary Shelley.

Mary Shelley

"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • grief
  • anxiety
  • self confidence
  • relationships

Generated from

  • Existential meaning
  • Grief work
  • Self-inquiry
Sitting Bull

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Sitting Bull.

Sitting Bull

"Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children."

Specializes in

  • relationships
  • purpose
  • stress
  • leadership
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Indigenous wisdom
  • Nature connection
  • Nonviolent resistance
Teresa of Avila

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Teresa of Avila.

Teresa of Avila

"May God protect me from gloomy saints."

Specializes in

  • faith
  • purpose
  • anxiety
  • stress
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Christian mysticism
  • Contemplative practice
  • Self-inquiry
Therese of Lisieux

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Therese of Lisieux.

Therese of Lisieux

"My mission—to make God loved—will begin after my death. I will spend my heaven doing good on earth. I will let fall a shower of roses."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • anxiety
  • stress
  • self confidence
  • faith

Generated from

  • Christian mysticism
  • Contemplative practice
  • Compassion practice
Swami Vivekananda

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Swami Vivekananda.

Swami Vivekananda

"Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • self confidence
  • anxiety
  • burnout
  • career
  • leadership

Generated from

  • Advaita Vedanta
  • Yoga philosophy
  • Bhakti
Zhuangzi

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Zhuangzi.

Zhuangzi

"The perfect man uses his mind like a mirror -- going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing. Therefore he can triumph over things without injury."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • purpose
  • self confidence
  • relationships
  • burnout

Generated from

  • Taoism
  • Zen
  • Existential meaning