Being Single Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's when you're not looking for anything that something winds up coming along. It's about learning how to be just with yourself and that you don't need to be in a relationship. You don't need anyone to fulfill you.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Wind, Needs

  "10 On-Point Things Celebrities Have Said About Being Single" By Brittany Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.

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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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• I think it will be better when I get involved with someone again, because I made this time for me. I haven't really been single for a while, and I think it's been good for me, to lose the fear to be like this.

  Penelope Cruz

  Thinking, Made, Get Involved

  "Romantic Cruz" by Sean M Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2001.

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• Being single can pave the way for new opportunities.

  Selena Gomez

  Life Lesson, Opportunity, Way

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I ... would guess maybe about one or two out of five men is suited for marriage and probably four out of five women are better at marriage than being single and would like to be married.

  Bill Maher

  Men, Two, Four

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• Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loneliness, Single Life, Maps

  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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• You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

  Warsan Shire

  Love, Beautiful, Women

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• I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

  Warsan Shire

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

  Joseph Addison

  Single, Passion, Pleasing Others

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.100

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• You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

  Guy Finley

  Inspirational, Single, Letting Go

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• I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.

  Yanni

  Single, Regret, Past

  Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

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