Quotes on Being Single

Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.

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.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

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

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.'

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

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.

For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.

You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

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