Quotes on Single Life

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

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

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

Books and marriage go ill together.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.