Being Single Quotes - Page 7

• Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

  Lady Gaga

  Love, Inspiring, Dream

  Cosmopolitan, April 2010.

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• If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

  Elizabeth I

  Queens, Dignity, Married

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• Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

  Miranda July

  Inspirational, Decision, Single Girl

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• A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Wall

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What makes night within us may leave stars.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Wisdom

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel”, p.79, Mondial

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• I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very confident in being single until I find someone who I'm extremely crazy about and who I want to devote my time and love to. Until then, I will just be on my own and I am totally fine with that.

  Nina Dobrev

  Crazy, Time And Love, Needs

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• Many gamblers think they're being singled out by fate as a target for cruel jokes. They feel they alone in all the universe are being tortured, experimented upon by some unknown force.

  Mike Caro

  Fate, Thinking, Target

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• Is being single hard? It depends where your mind is. If you are focused, being single is an enjoyable experience, but if you hate being alone, you'll hate being single. I think it depends on the individual are where they are in life.

  Lauren London

  Hate, Thinking, Mind

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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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• I've had somebody on the end of the phone, maybe, but I haven't been living with anyone or been in a proper relationship, and it's been really great. And now I'm completely on my own. I think I've grown up a lot.

  Sienna Miller

  Single, Thinking, Phones

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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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• I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.

  Wendy Liebman

  Funny, Dog, Witty

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• Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

  Antonio Machado

  Being Yourself, Men, Essence

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• There is a lot of relief for daters who are serious about wanting to be in a relationship. This comes in the form of what appears to be dramatic changes like speed dating and Internet dating.

  April Masini

  Single, Dating, Relief

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• Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Being Yourself, Individuality, Innocence

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.

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• Single life is so overrated. It sucks.

  Rihanna

  Single Life, Life Is, Overrated

  "Rihanna: 'Single Life Is Overrated'" by Phil Boucher, Liz Raftery, people.com. March 2, 2012.

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• Why is it that people think staying in a bad relationship is better than being single? Don't they know that being single is the first step to finding a great relationship?

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Bad Relationship, Thinking, People

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• If you're comfortable with yourself-which everyone can get to, to some extent-that's when you start getting into who is your real self.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Real, Self, Ifs

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• Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in. I couldn't have lived alone before. I always needed someone to share my space but now I like being by myself. If I want to be with people then I see my friends; if I want a date then I'll have one.

  Kelly Rowland

  Single, Space, People

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• "Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Funny, Life, Being Yourself

  "American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book by Clifton Fadiman, p. 791, 1955.

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• You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Graduation, Encouraging, Self Confidence

  Dr. Seuss (2017). “Oh, The Places You’ll Go”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.

  Robert Breault

  Being Yourself, Impression, Stills

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  Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

  Marianne Moore

  Being Yourself, Individuality, Originality

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• It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.

  Robert Breault

  Being Yourself, Effort, Persons

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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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