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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 thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

  Omar Khayyam

  Thoughtful, Soul, Solitude

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.122, University of Virginia Press

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

  Eileen Caddy

  Unique, Human Nature, Humans

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Law, Solitude, May

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• Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Change, Stay Strong

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Dec 28, 2013

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Brother, Loneliness, Solitude

  Miguel de Unamuno (1925). “Essays and Soliloquies”

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• Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Sexy, Money

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

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• Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Life, Blessing, Long

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.608, Delphi Classics

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• He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

  Aristotle

  Men, Worst Enemy, Solitude

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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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• 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

  Regret, Past, Events

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

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