Single Quotes - Page 4

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.

Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.

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

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.

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.

In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on.

Pain is never permanent.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

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

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.

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.

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad, joy and sorrow. Now I can accept setbacks more easily, with less sense of disappointment and personal failure, because meditation has taught me how to cope with the profound truth that everything changes all the time.

Being single doesn't necessarily mean you're available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says "Do Not Disturb" on your heart.

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.