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  • 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.

    Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.37, Univ of California Press
  • Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

    Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press
  • He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

  • Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

    Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company
  • When you're under audit, you don't give your papers. An audit is - I have been under audit for so many years. Every year, I get audited. For, I think, over 10 years, maybe even 12 years, I have been audited. And I think it's very fair. And I think I'm being singled out.

    Source: www.cbsnews.com
  • I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.

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

  • Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.

    Ho Chi Minh's political slogan as quoted in Jean Sainteny "Ho Chi Minh and His Vietnam: A Personal Memoir" (p. 172), 1972.
  • I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

    Single   Hurt   Hate  
  • You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.

  • Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.

    Single   Sexy   Mean  
  • [Robert Downey was being singled out for] selective prosecution. He's a sweet guy who never did harm to anyone except himself. He's been doing drugs for 20 years and functioning for 20 years, and in those 20 years there've been hundreds of people who've been getting high constantly and behaved very destructively and have not been arrested. Robert's real problem is he gets caught.

  • Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

    Love   Inspiring   Dream  
    Cosmopolitan, April 2010.
  • Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • Being single doesn't mean your weak. It means your strong enough to wait for what you deserve.

  • 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's New Fairy Tale". Interview With Leslie Bennetts, www.marieclaire.com. July 13, 2011.
  • Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

  • Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

    Love   Single   Butterfly  
  • I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.

  • The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

    Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.122, University of Virginia Press
  • We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

    FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Dec 02, 2015
  • 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.

  • Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

    Single   Loyalty   Self  
  • The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

    Single   Men   Silence  
  • 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.

    Single   Dating   Relief  
  • 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.

    Source: www.denofgeek.com
  • This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

    Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.260, A&C Black
  • 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.

    Music   Single   Men  
    Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.1549, Delphi Classics
  • I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.

  • People should get married because they have finally seen the folly of being single: "Oh, this is all just kind of a bad magic trick. I just keep bending over to reach for this wallet on a string. How much longer am I gonna do that?"

    "Jerry Seinfeld Wants to Save Your Marriage". Interview with Lucy Kaylin, www.oprah.com. April 2010.
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