Single Quotes - Page 5

Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live alone, find their own rhythms, date a variety of people, go into therapy, develop new friends and interests, learn how to live with and care for themselves.

All my singles went platinum-plus.All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

One thing is certain: When the time has come, nothing which is man-made will subsist. One day, all human accomplishments will be reduced to a pile of ashes. But every single child to whom a has given birth will live forever, for he has been given an immortal soul made to God's image and likeness.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Instead of thinking of this and that, one thing after the other, let your mind recognize itself in a single moment. When the mind recognizes itself, there is no thing to see there. It’s just wide open. That’s because the essence of mind is empty. It’s wide open and free

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

You cannot, and will not, encounter a circumstance, or a single moment, that does not serve directly and immediately the need of your soul to heal.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

I am single and not looking to be in a relationship.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks, to draw [one] towards a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his consciousness in a truth immediate, rare, enormous, and perfect. If a work of art succeeds in this undertaking even for a single moment, it attains its goal.

Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.

I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

Never forget how swiftly this life will be over, like a flash of summer lightning or the wave of a hand. Now that you have the opportunity to practice dharma, do not waste a single moment on anything else.

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.

Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.

Being single also sucks sometimes because you're single.

Every journey starts with a single step.

Sometimes awful things have their own beauty.

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

When you keep the porch light on for the prodigal child, you do what God does every single moment.

The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations. ...that is what you compare your experience with. If your expectations and standards are very high and only allow yourself to be happy when things are exquisite, you'll never be happy and grateful. There will always be some flaw. But compare your experience with lower expectations, especially something not as good, and you'll find much in your experience of the world to love, cherish and enjoy, every single moment.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.