Being Single Quotes - Page 8

• A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

  Helen Rowland

  Inspirational, Beauty, Single

  A Guide to Men "Bachelors" (1922)

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

  Jim Bishop

  Daughter, Dad, Funny Relationship

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• You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Graduation, Confidence

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Fake People, Being Yourself

  William Shakespeare, Nick De Somogyi (2001). “Hamlet: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke : the First Folio of 1623 and a Parallel Modern Edition”, p.106, Nick Hern Books

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  I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Single, Being Alone, Profound

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• There's nothing wrong with being fired.

  Ted Turner

  Lonely, Strong Women, Loneliness

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  Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

  Mae West

  Funny, Relationship, Sexy

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

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• 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

  Inspirational, Lonely, Heart

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Dec 02, 2015

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• Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Feb 14, 2017

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• Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

  Guy Finley

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Past

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• If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

  Elizabeth I

  Queens, Dignity, Married

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• I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• Pain is never permanent.

  Teresa of Avila

  Single, Spiritual, Pain

  "The Book of Positive Quotations" edited by John Cook, Steve Deger, and Leslie Ann Gibson, (p. 333), 2007.

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• I am 54 years old and happily single. In addition to my nuclear family, I have a close circle of friends. Most of my friends are men. But my reputation is such that their female partners would never consider me a threat.

  Geraldine Lee Wei Ling

  Single, Men, Years

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• I've had somebody on the end of the phone, maybe, but I haven't been living with anyone or been in a proper relationship, and it's been really great. And now I'm completely on my own. I think I've grown up a lot.

  Sienna Miller

  Single, Thinking, Phones

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• Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

  Miranda July

  Inspirational, Decision, Single Girl

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• Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

  Lady Gaga

  Love, Inspiring, Dream

  Cosmopolitan, April 2010.

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• What makes night within us may leave stars.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Wisdom

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel”, p.79, Mondial

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• A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Wall

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live alone, find their own rhythms, date a variety of people, go into therapy, develop new friends and interests, learn how to live with and care for themselves.

  Harville Hendrix

  Single, Should Have, People

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• Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and self-sufficiency, to identify our true desires, and to confront our inner strengths and demons.

  Harville Hendrix

  Single, Responsibility, Journey

  Harville Hendrix (1993). “Keeping the Love You Find”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Live the life you've dreamed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Single, Short Life, Live Life

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• Once you become famous, being single becomes a liability.

  Joe Manganiello

  Liability

  Source: www.elle.com

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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

  Single, Hurt, Moving

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

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• Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.

  Brian Wilson

  Records

  Said at the Tonight Show, 1984.

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