Being Single Quotes - Page 7

• People should get married because they have finally seen the folly of being single: "Oh, this is all just kind of a bad magic trick. I just keep bending over to reach for this wallet on a string. How much longer am I gonna do that?"

  Jerry Seinfeld

  People, Magic, Bending

  "Jerry Seinfeld Wants to Save Your Marriage". Interview with Lucy Kaylin, www.oprah.com. April 2010.

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• My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon.

  Kris Carr

  Mom, Being Yourself, Spoons

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• He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Being Yourself, Old Things, Be True To Yourself

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• There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

  Samuel Johnson

  Being Yourself, Believe, Heart

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.37, Univ of California Press

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• Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Self, Single Girl

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• When I think about it like that, it feels like a burden. But that won't mean I'll be single for the rest of my life - I hope. I feel very settled with myself in my world. I don't feel as needy and desperate to prove things about myself. In my twenties I was very keen to achieve this and disprove this and that. Now I enjoy just being able to concentrate on my children and my work and myself.

  Jude Law

  Single, Children, Mean

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• Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Problem, Company, Mines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sandwich he made was bologna and cheese, his favorite. All the sandwiches he made were his favorites; that was one of the advantages of being single.

  Stephen King

  Sandwiches, Bologna, Cheese

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.210, Anchor

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• What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

  Carl Rogers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Being Yourself

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• With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

  Max Ehrmann

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.10, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

  Robert Browning

  Being Yourself, Acceptance, Being Real

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.265, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

  Paul Valery

  Being Yourself, Men, Keys

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• The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Making Love, Single Girl

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 1932.

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• At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Success, Being Yourself

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1965). “The Philosophy of Nietzsche”, Signet Book

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• Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Single, Hurt

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• But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loneliness, Single Life, Use

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.67, A&C Black

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• An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

  Honore de Balzac

  Being Yourself, Work, Love Yourself

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• Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us

  Pablo Neruda

  Inspirational, Generosity, Single Girl

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• Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Sad, Appreciation, Inspirational Life

  "Song of Myself " l. 1 (written 1855)

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• I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

  Mindy Kaling

  Being Alone, Different, World

  "Flick Chicks" by Mindy Kaling, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2011.

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• Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

  Fanny Brice

  Motivational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People would be a lot better off if they'd enjoy being single.

  Lewis Black

  People, Would Be, Enjoy

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• I like relationships and being in love, but I also like being single - you have to embrace all those different things.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Being In Love, Different, Embrace

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