“I’m not angry, or mean, or dealing with a terribly uncomfortable underwire — I’m just trying to get from one place to another without allowing the onslaught of unwanted comments from total strangers to whittle away at me.”— Shani Silver, refinery29.com
“If you’re in a toxic relationship right now, just know that there is a better life possible for you. You are worthy of the happiness that life has to offer. You are deserving of healthy love and self-love. You are worthy of infinite abundance and success. You will be okay by yourself. In fact, who k…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes, it’s better to be alone for a while. To be in a relationship with yourself rather than with someone who makes you feel even more lonely. To give yourself permission to let go of the person you tried to be in all of your relationships in order to become who you were really meant to be.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Missing from the stacks of journal articles is any sustained attention to the risks of intensive coupling—investing all of your emotional and relationship stock into just one person, “The One”—or to the resilience offered by the networks of friends and family that so many single people maintain.”— Bella DePaulo, amazon.com
“We hear all about how single people are supposedly at risk for becoming lonely, but little about the creative, intellectual, and emotional potential of solitude… We are told that single people do not have the intimacy that married people find in their partners, but hear only crickets about the genui…”— Bella DePaulo, amazon.com
“If you are not already a happy person, don’t count on marriage to transform you into one. If you are already happy, don’t expect marriage to make you even happier…finally, if you are single and happy, do not fret that you will descend into despair if you dare to stay single. That’s not likely either…”— Bella DePaulo, amazon.com