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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

  Hurt, Moving, Past

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

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• He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

  Publilius Syrus

  Law, Solitude, May

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• I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.

  Peter Høeg

  Loneliness, Blessing, Light

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

  Clint Eastwood

  Marriage, Divorce, Learning

  Investor's Business Daily, April 9, 2001.

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• The first of earthly blessings, independence.

  Edward Gibbon

  Blessing, Independence, Firsts

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.8, Wordsworth Editions

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• Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.

  Andre Gide

  Being Single, Venture, Consent

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• Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Freedom, Independence, Liberty

  Ho Chi Minh's political slogan as quoted in Jean Sainteny "Ho Chi Minh and His Vietnam: A Personal Memoir" (p. 172), 1972.

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• Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Spring, Women, Being Alone

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• By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Anniversary, Funny Valentines Day, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

  Eileen Caddy

  Unique, Human Nature, Humans

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• I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

  Charles Bukowski

  Marriage, Wedding, Wife

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• If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

  Greta Garbo

  Blessed, Married, Ifs

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

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• Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

  Mark Twain

  Loyalty, Self, Idols

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• I've been having a lot of dance parties alone in my apartment while learning to cook. Part of my quest to be an attractive single is to learn how to cook and sew and get a license.

  Sara Quin

  Party, Quests, Attractive

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• I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.

  Garry Shandling

  Phones, People, Needs

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• One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

  Carl Sandburg

  America, Creative, Solitude

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time‎" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 448), 1977.

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• When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Divorce, Two

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.70, Lulu.com

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• A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

  Cesare Pavese

  Loneliness, Boys, Men

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.202, Transaction Publishers

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• There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Hilarious, Sexy

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Travel, Loneliness, Memorable

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.162

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• Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

  Edward Gibbon

  Wisdom, Loneliness, School

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.277

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• I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

  John Mellencamp

  Records, Wheels, Humans

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• What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.

  Charlie Munger

  Nuts, Definitions, Way

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• I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.

  Garry Shandling

  Valentines Day, Funny Love, Dating

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• Live the life you've dreamed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Short Life, Live Life, Literature

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