Best 129 quotes in «being single quotes» category

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life.

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

Because it's one of those things I never expected in my lifetime," he told me. "Like a comet. Or world peace. I'm just used to you being single." For some reason, that bothered me. "What, you don't think any guy would ever be interested in me?" Actually," said Adrian, sounding remarkably serious, "I can imagine lots of guys being interested in you.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

You are a single woman; you intend to remain one. You’ve acquired enough sexual experience to feel you belong to your times. You do not have children; you never intended to. Sustained romantic intensities have not been for you. Your explanation (not an untrue one,though not quite sufficient) is that you have let yourself be shaped by so many conventions, expectations, and requirements (institution’s, people’s), by so much dread of disapproval, that the discipline of solitude—severe solitude—has been required to give you the sense of an independent selfhood. The intensities of friendship suit you better. Friendship’s choreography is for multiple partners: for varied groups and surprisingly sustained duets.

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

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

Being single is not easy. But neither is being married. They are just difficult in different ways as God uses everything in our life to make us more like Jesus, who happened to live a perfect life while single.

Being single can pave the way for new opportunities.

Being single is not as bad as everyone likes to make it seem!

Being single is wonderful and I love it. I don't ever have a morning where I wake up and say, 'I really need to find a boyfriend today.'

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

"Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.

A wedding seems to be, unless you've been married more than once, so then it's a much more mellow affair - it's one of the biggest decisions you make in your life. Of course, half of marriages fall apart and most people end up being single again anyway.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

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.

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

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.

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

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.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

I had enough time being single to know I have no regrets about being married!

I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.

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

If you help yourself to the benefits of being married when you are single, you're likely to help yourself to the benefits of being single when you're married.

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.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

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

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.

I'm not necessarily happy being single. It's not really that cool.

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

I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

I'm not single, I'm just wait for my girlfriend to quit playing hide and seek.

I need relationships, but sometimes when I am in one I feel claustrophobic. It is about feeling that I still have my freedom, that I have choices. I don't look back on the past because I like to live in the present. I know this makes some people think I probably never cared, but I need my freedom and I like to keep moving.

I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen. As a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl. Before you reach that age where your sexuality starts to display itself, kids can look very androgynous, and I guess I leaned more toward the feminine. All those things were very hard, growing up, because you're trying to create an identity, and you're feeling shameful about the one that you're making. So, I identified with it a lot.

I think it will be better when I get involved with someone again, because I made this time for me. I haven't really been single for a while, and I think it's been good for me, to lose the fear to be like this.

It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.

It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.

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.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

It is therefore vital for you to understand that being single-" separate, unique, and whole"- is most essential to, and the foundation of, not only marital relationships but all relationships.

I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.

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