Being Single Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

  John C. Maxwell

  Single, Hurt, Moving

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.78, Harper Collins

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• When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

  Eda LeShan

  Single, Self Esteem, Loneliness

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• Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.

  Brian Wilson

  Records

  Said at the Tonight Show, 1984.

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• The mind is what the mind is fed.

  David J. Schwartz

  Inspirational, Mind, Single Girl

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• The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.

  Damon Hill

  Athlete, Thinking, Important

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• Once you become famous, being single becomes a liability.

  Joe Manganiello

  Liability

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen. As a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl. Before you reach that age where your sexuality starts to display itself, kids can look very androgynous, and I guess I leaned more toward the feminine. All those things were very hard, growing up, because you're trying to create an identity, and you're feeling shameful about the one that you're making. So, I identified with it a lot.

  Matt Reeves

  Girl, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.

  Bipasha Basu

  Stress, Special, Why Not

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• Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.

  Billy Crystal

  Sexy, Funny Sex, Men

  "Fictional character: Mitch Robbins". "City Slickers", www.imdb.com. June 7, 1991.

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• Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live alone, find their own rhythms, date a variety of people, go into therapy, develop new friends and interests, learn how to live with and care for themselves.

  Harville Hendrix

  Single, Should Have, People

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• Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and self-sufficiency, to identify our true desires, and to confront our inner strengths and demons.

  Harville Hendrix

  Single, Responsibility, Journey

  Harville Hendrix (1993). “Keeping the Love You Find”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't want to not be single because you're scared of being single.

  Alia Shawkat

  Want, Scared

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

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• I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.

  Alana Stewart

  Mind, Facts

  "Is ‘I Do’ Supposed To Be Forever?" by Alana Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2013.

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• A wedding seems to be, unless you've been married more than once, so then it's a much more mellow affair - it's one of the biggest decisions you make in your life. Of course, half of marriages fall apart and most people end up being single again anyway.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Fall, People, Decision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being single is wonderful and I love it. I don't ever have a morning where I wake up and say, 'I really need to find a boyfriend today.'

  Taylor Swift

  Morning, Needs, Wake Up

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• The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

  Rainn Wilson

  Office, Style, Documentaries

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2008.

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• Being single is not easy. But neither is being married. They are just difficult in different ways as God uses everything in our life to make us more like Jesus, who happened to live a perfect life while single.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, Perfect, Different

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• Some people think it's wrong, being single isn't right. But if you hurt the right person, you'll be wrong all your life.

  Tyga

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  Song: Reminded

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• The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

  Aristotle

  Single, Men, Silence

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• I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.

  Candace Bushnell

  Enjoy

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• You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.

  Jo Coudert

  Inspirational, Self, Single Life

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.131, iUniverse

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