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• Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

  Julie Delpy

  Relationship, Romantic, Being Alone

  "Fast Food Dating Your 2 Cents". Book by Peter Sacco and Jennifer Schott, 2011.

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• The surest way to be alone is to get married.

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Wedding, Way

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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

  Independent, Air, Self

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• Learning to enjoy being single involves the ability to experience everything through your own essence, instead of living vicariously through a spouse or partner.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Essence, Partners, Enjoy

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• When I am alone I am happy.

  William Carlos Williams

  Being Single

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.163, New Directions Publishing

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• I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City, it's 47 percent. When you have that many people who are single, they have a bigger voice and they're more willing to speak and say, 'We're not miserable, we're not sitting at home waiting for Mr. or Ms. Right, we're having a good time.' And I think single people have better friendships.

  Candace Bushnell

  New York, Home, Thinking

  "Singles get prime time attention" by Jill Brooke, www.cnn.com. October 10, 1995.

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• Voyager upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And whate'er your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.

  Sarah T. Bolton

  Sea, May, Being True

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• There is a lot of relief for daters who are serious about wanting to be in a relationship. This comes in the form of what appears to be dramatic changes like speed dating and Internet dating.

  April Masini

  Dating, Relief, Serious

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• There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards.

  Deepak Chopra

  Shopping, Numbers, Kind

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• I'm not that girl who's really concerned with it. I've dated a bit and it's just draining to me. If it's not going to happen natural, obviously it's going to be someone in the industry because that's the only time people ever really see me.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Girl, People, Natural

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• The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Maids, Matrimony

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• That's why I called it Dangerously In Love. It's basically all of the steps in a relationship from when you first meet a guy to realizing you're interested to dancing with him the first night to thinking that you're in love to realizing that you're now a little open to making love to breaking up to having to love yourself after the breakup. All of that. A celebration of love.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Breakup, Love You, Love Is

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• It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am, the more affection I have for them. It is pure affection, and filled with reverance for the solitude of others. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

  Thomas Merton

  Brother, Silence, Solitude

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.280, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think it can be fun to be single and date like when you don't want a relationship. Or when you've just gotten out of a relationship, and, after get over the initial shock, you're thinking, hey, it's kind of cool being single.

  Breckin Meyer

  Relationship, Fun, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Joy, Think Of You

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

  Philip Sidney

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Philip Sidney (1901). “The Sidneys of Penshurst”

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• I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

  Sue Grafton

  Rich, Being Single, Single Women

  Sue Grafton (2011). “D is for Deadbeat”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

  Joseph Addison

  Passion, Pleasing Others, Solitude

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.100

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

  Helen Rowland

  Inspirational, Beauty, Boys

  A Guide to Men "Bachelors" (1922)

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• Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Music, Men, Agency

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.1549, Delphi Classics

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• I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

  Olivia Wilde

  Meaningful, Thinking, New Years Resolution

  "Olivia Wilde's New Fairy Tale". Interview With Leslie Bennetts, www.marieclaire.com. July 13, 2011.

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• I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out your own. You've got to block them out and find that place deep inside you, shaken but still intact, and hold on to it.

  Katie Couric

  Block, Voice, Calling

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• I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Adventure, Labels

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.261, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• 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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