Happy Being Single Quotes

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.

Eric Dickerson

Being Single, Being Alone, Love Is

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My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

Warsan Shire

Loneliness, Being Single, Being Alone

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I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

Music, Loneliness, Being Single

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.

Delta Burke

Single, Lonely, Being Alone

"5 Things to Love About Being Single" by Whitney Caudill, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

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Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

Candace Bushnell

Running, Women, Being Single

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Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

Michael Douglas

Single, Nice, Happy Valentines Day

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Being single doesn't necessarily mean you're available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says "Do Not Disturb" on your heart.

Wiz Khalifa

Single, Heart, Mean

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Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Single, Sexy, Mean

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Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

Candace Bushnell

Love, Single, Butterfly

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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Hermann Hesse

Love, Life, Strength

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Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

Julie Delpy

Relationship, Romantic, Single

"Fast Food Dating Your 2 Cents". Book by Peter Sacco and Jennifer Schott, 2011.

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I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

Penelope Cruz

Being Happy, Girlfriend, Being Single

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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.

Dido Armstrong

Being Single, Being Alone, Long

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

Love, Life, Confidence

"Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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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 Single

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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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If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

Thomas Merton

Being Single, Being Alone, Heart

Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.121, Shambhala Publications

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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

Anais Nin

Love, Inspirational, Dream

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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, Being Single, Single Life

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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I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

Sue Grafton

Single, Rich, Being Single

Sue Grafton (2011). “D is for Deadbeat”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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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, Being Single, Single Life

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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When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Lonely, Loneliness, Being Single

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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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Inspirational, Single, Peace

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Now I'm feeling how I should. Never knew single could feel this good.

Jason Derulo

Being Alone, Feelings, Happy Single

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