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Being Single Quotes

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Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us
Pablo Neruda

Forgive with benevolence those who cannot adore us.
Authors on Being Single Quotes: Elizabeth Gilbert Robert Breault Thomas Merton Ralph Waldo Emerson Warsan Shire Rihanna Candace Bushnell Dr. Seuss Jo Coudert Penelope Cruz Nora Ephron David Pleat Olga Kurylenko Matt Reeves Anais Nin George Meredith Stephanie Mills Hunter S. Thompson Joe Manganiello Brian Wilson Charlotte Bronte Hayden Panettiere Phil McGraw Shirley MacLaine Miranda July Jennifer Connelly Dido Armstrong Oscar Wilde Pablo Neruda Tim Walters Meghan Trainor Andre Gide Mark Driscoll
2.
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

'Those who believe being single is wrong could be misguided for eternity if they hurt the right person.'
3.
My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
Warsan Shire

My own company brings me such contentment, I'll only welcome you if your presence surpasses my enjoyment of being alone.
4.
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
Oscar Wilde

Maintaining a state of authenticity is an arduous task.
5.
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
Hunter S. Thompson

6.
Being single doesn't mean your weak. It means your strong enough to wait for what you deserve.
Niall Horan

'Being unattached does not indicate frailty; it shows the strength to bide one's time for something worthy.'
7.
I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.
Warsan Shire

8.
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
Billy Crystal

9.
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
Jim Bishop

10.
No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.
D. H. Lawrence

11.
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

12.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Henri Frederic Amiel

13.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
Dr. Seuss

14.
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

15.
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

16.
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
Hermann Hesse

17.
I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing.
Aziz Ansari

18.
Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of gender-related problems come up in terms of health, education, domestic violence, etc.
Kumari Jayawardena

19.
Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
Marianne Moore

20.
The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.
Charles R. Brown

21.
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau

22.
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Rabindranath Tagore

23.
If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.
Sloane Crosley

24.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire

25.
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Paul Valery

26.
Being single also sucks sometimes because you're single.
Dakota Johnson

27.
The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.
Tony Robbins

28.
Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.
Guy Finley

29.
Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.
Gautama Buddha

30.
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

31.
Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you cant.
Alan Sillitoe

32.
The part that's difficult is being single, at 41, after 10 years of marriage and two kids. That's like having a bunch of money in a currency of a country that doesn't exist anymore.
Louis C. K.

33.
The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
Anais Nin

34.
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

35.
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.
Jo Coudert

36.
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
Elizabeth Gilbert

37.
We are betrayed by what is false within
George Meredith

38.
It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
Phil McGraw

39.
Winning isn't the end of the world
David Pleat

40.
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
Andre Gide

41.
The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?
Christine Feehan

42.
I love being single. It's almost like being rich.
Sue Grafton

43.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen

44.
I want to be better at being single, and I want to be better at feeling okay about being single. I don't need a boyfriend.
Meghan Trainor

45.
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

46.
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

47.
Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
Robert Browning

48.
I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.
Mindy Kaling

49.
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

50.
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
Eleanor Roosevelt