Being Single Quotes - Page 4

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Single, Travel, Loneliness

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

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• But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Single, Independent, Air

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• The day you wind up single through divorce or separation is the day you get to test who you really are.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Single, Divorce, Wind

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

  Eric Dickerson

  Being Alone, Love Is, Self Love

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• Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.

  Mae West

  Funny, Smile, Break Up

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Anniversary, Single, Funny Valentines Day

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

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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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• Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.

  Renee Jones

  Marriage, Single, Lonely

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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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• I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Single, Hurt, Hate

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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 Alone, Long, Single Relationship

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• Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in.

  Kelly Rowland

  Space, Appreciate, Single Life

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• 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

  Lonely, Thinking, Like Being Alone

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• The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

  Omar Khayyam

  Single, Thoughtful, Soul

  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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  Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Clever

  "Contarini Fleming". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, 1832.

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• I honestly think being single's great. Being in a relationship's great. It's all about the timing.

  Mila Kunis

  Thinking, Timing, Honestly

  "Mila Kunis: The Good Bad Girl". Interview With Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 5, 2012.

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• Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Single, Attitude, Past

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

  Robert Breault

  Being Yourself, Skills, Life Is Hard

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• We are betrayed by what is false within

  George Meredith

  Being Yourself, Betrayed

  'Modern Love' (1862) st. 43

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• To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Being Alone, Exercise

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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

  Thomas Merton

  Being Alone, Heart, Single Life

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

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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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• All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Being Yourself, Mistake, Views

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.123, Harvard University Press

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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 to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Being Yourself, Inspiration, Acceptance

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