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Charlotte Brontë
“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
― Charlotte Brontë
tags: companionship, loneliness, marriage, single, spinsterhood
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Lana Del Rey
“I was always an unusual girl.
My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.”
― Lana Del Rey
tags: born-to-die, chameleon, elizabeth-woolridge-grant, life, lyrics, moral-compass, mother, music, ocean, personality, pop, ride, single, song, soul, unusual, wise
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
tags: affair, assurance, autonomy, believe-in-yourself, breakup, composure, detachment, development, disappearance, distance, escape, fade, freedom, hide, hideout, impression, independence, leg-pulling, let-go, letting-go, liberty, love, michael-bassey-johnson, neutrality, out-of-view, poise, prove, respect, self-control, self-reliance, self-rule, separation, single, sovereignty, survival, test, unconventional, unconventionality, vanish
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Lana Del Rey
“Who are you?
Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?
Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?
I have. I am fucking crazy.
But I am free.”
― Lana Del Rey
tags: born-to-die, crazy, dark-fantasy, elizabeth-woolridge-grant, experience, experiences, fantasies, fantasy, free, life, lyrics, me, music, pop, ride, single, song, who, you, yourself
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Mandy Hale
“A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
tags: being-single, dating, goals, hard-to-get, holding-out-for-the-best, love, loving-yourself, not-settling, playing-hard-to-get, positive-thinking, relationships, single, single-life, single-woman, singleness, standards, the-single-woman, validation
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Mandy Hale
“Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
tags: being-single, dating, finding-love, living-life-to-the-fullest, living-your-best-life, love, not-settling, positive-thinking, praying-for-love, relationships, single, single-life, single-woman, singleness, the-single-woman
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
tags: abstinence, affair, apart, breakdown, breakup, celibacy, celibate, chaste, cheating, courage, divorce, end, enstrangement, falling-in-love, falling-in-love-with-a-beast, final-decision, key, lock-up, love-affair, mercilless, michael-bassey-johnson, padlock, parting, sea, single
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Mandy Hale
“Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
tags: attitude, being-single, brave, confidence, independence, loving-yourself, positive-thinking, positivity, self-worth, single, single-life, the-single-woman
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
tags: alone, bad-company, bad-friends, bad-influence, be-yourself, behaviour, believe-in-yourself, callow, childishness, company, etiquette, good-behaviour, good-quality, immature, immaturity, maturity, mediocre, mediocrity, negative-influence, negative-people, outstanding, peculiar, peculiarity, presence, quality, sensitivity, single, stand-alone
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Lana Del Rey
“I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.
But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.”
― Lana Del Rey
tags: born-to-die, broken, dreams, elizabeth-woolridge-grant, freedom, life, lyrics, music, nightsky, pop, ride, single, sky, song, stars, wish, wishes, wishing
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Mandy Hale
“Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
tags: being-single, choice, defining-your-life, happily-ever-after, happy-ending, happy-ever-after, lack-of-options, life, loving-yourself, not-settling, positive-thinking, relationship-status, relationships, single, single-ladies, single-lady, single-life, single-woman, single-women, singleness, the-single-woman
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Mandy Hale
“Single” is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
tags: being-single, confidence, embracing-your-singleness, holding-out-for-the-best, independence, life, live-life-on-your-own-terms, living-in-the-moment, loving-yourself, no-apologies, not-settling, opportunity, positive-thinking, single, single-journey, single-life, single-woman, singleness, the-single-woman
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
tags: alone, bad-company, bad-friends, believe-in-yourself, company, composure, contentment, crowd, detachment, disturbance, enigma, enigmatic, freedom, friends, friendship, friendships, happiness, liberty, lonely, lonliness, michael-bassey-johnson, negative-people, once, one, privacy, private-life, remember, rememberance, separation, single, today, toxic-people, unecessary, yesterday, you
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Mandy Hale
“Single |sin•gle| (adjective) - Too fabulous to settle.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
tags: being-fabulous, being-single, fabulous, loving-yourself, not-settling, positive-thinking, refusing-to-settle, settling, single, single-ladies, single-life, single-woman, singleness, the-single-woman, too-fabulous-to-settle
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Jenni Ferrari-Adler
“What does an introvert do when he's left alone? He stays alone.”
― Jenni Ferrari-Adler, Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone
tags: alone, introvert, single
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Lana Del Rey
“Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.
We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.”
― Lana Del Rey
tags: art, born-to-die, elizabeth-woolridge-grant, life, lyrics, music, pop, pray, ride, road, single, song, wish, wishes, wishing
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Rachel Machacek
“The formula I've figured out: Stop being so damn picky and let go of the mental image of an ideal; talk to more strangers, because it builds confidence and helps you feel more connected; be open to every opportunity, and when you do meet someone you like, keep dating around. And there's the mother of all lessons-the one I'm still working on: follow your instincts and even if you're wrong about him (or her), you'll know better for the next time.”
― Rachel Machacek, The Science of Single: One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, Creating Chemistry, and Finding Love
tags: dating, love, single
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Mandy Hale
“There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
tags: alone, aloneness, beauty, being-single, faith, flying-solo, journey, life, loneliness, loving-yourself, positive-thinking, single, single-life, single-woman, singleness, solo, the-single-woman, trust-the-journey
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Erik Pevernagie
“A thousand times, people may have touched each other, but never ever sensed a single vein of oneness or complicity in the wilderness of their inner world, since obdurate mental impediments have been barricading the road to understanding and propinquity. (“A thousand times”)”
― Erik Pevernagie
tags: barricade, complicity, impediments, inner-world, mental-disorder, never-ever, obdurate, oneness, people, propinquity, road, sense, single, times, touch, understanding, vein, wilderness
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Thomas Hardy
“If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.”
― Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
tags: marriage, marry, single
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Maquita Donyel Irvin Andrews
“she was completely whole
and yet never fully complete”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles
tags: art, artist, be-present, beautiful-mind, beautiful-women, black-women-quotes, black-women-writers, black-writers, bloom, christian-writers, coincidence, complete, faith, faith-in-god, flower, growth-quotes, hope, imperfect, imperfection, jesus, love, love-poems, love-quotes, love-stories, lovely, no-coincidences, perfectly-imperfect, poems, purposeful-living, rare, relationship-quotes, relationships, single, single-woman, stories-of-a-polished-pistil, trust, wanderer, wanderlust, whole, women-writers, writers
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Michel de Montaigne
“[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
tags: cages, captivity, freedom, marriage, married-life, matrimony, relationships, single
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“Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.”
― prixie
tags: depends, describe, enjoy, enough, life, live, others, single, status, word
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Mandy Hale
“There’s something really cool about knowing that your destiny is SO big that you’re not meant to share it with anyone. At least not yet.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
tags: being-single, destiny, dreams, faith, faith-in-yourself, finding-yourself, life, love, positive-thinking, sharing-your-life-with-someone, single, single-life, single-woman, singleness, the-single-woman, trust, walking-alone, your-journey
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
“You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.”
― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Alice Alone
tags: alone, contentment, couple, happiness, love, self-acceptance, self-esteem, single
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Amit Kalantri
“When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.”
― Amit Kalantri
tags: alone, amit-kalantri, amit-kalantri-quotes, born-alone, certain, certainly, die-alone, human, humans, individual, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, live-alone, loneliness, lonely, lonely-quotes, motivation, motivational, motivational-quotes, one, philosophy, restless, restlessness, single, wisdom, wisdom-quotes
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Louisa May Alcott
“I don't believe I shall ever marry; I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
tags: independence, jo, little-women, louisa-may-alcott, single
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children
tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, bachelor, bachelors, birth, born, boyfriend, boyfriends, breakup, breakups, childfree, childless, deep, dictum, dictums, divorce, divorces, epigram, epigrams, ex, exes, father, fatherhood, fathers, funny, girlfriend, girlfriends, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, husband, husbands, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, marriage, married, maxim, maxims, mom, moms, mother, mothers, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, relationship, relationships, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, selfish, selfishness, single, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, trouble, troubled, wife, wives, world
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Sanhita Baruah
“Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there's one person who never ceased to love you - yourself.”
― Sanhita Baruah
tags: alone-but-not-lonely, alone-in-a-crowd, beauty, committed, grief, independent, life, loneliness, love, love-hurts, love-one-another, love-quotes, love-yourself, lover, loving-someone, loving-yourself, melancholy, relationships, sad, sadness, self-awareness, self-esteem, self-help, self-improvement, self-realization, single, solitude
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Lisa Kleypas
“Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Rainshadow Road
tags: bachelorette, single, spinster, spinsterhood
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