I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.
— Warsan Shire
Unconventional Single Status quotations
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

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


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.
Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.
It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life.
It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook.
By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: "Would someone please acknowledge me?

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
One of the reasons so many singles are dissatisfied is that they're looking for a change in status to define their significance, rather than finding a purpose in life, granted by God, that gives them significance regardless of the status they're in.

Fear is the single biggest barrier to creativity.
Unless we're brave enough to risk looking foolish, we'll inevitably find ourselves sticking to the status quo. That fear is disabling, One of the things we need to do as business leaders is build and nurture cultures that encourage responsible risk taking so making mistakes is OK.
If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.
You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.

...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.
I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.

People are really concerned about my relationship status.
When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.
If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.

It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are still primarily art-world phenomena, others that appeal to much broader audiences. The Burning Man festival is a case in point--an event featuring performance that is itself a performance, which partakes simultaneously of frontier mythology, a counter-cultural impulse, and popular cultural visibility.
We can't wait any longer for a path to full and equal citizenship.
Now, this is where I differ with everybody on the Republican side. Make no mistake, today, not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. Not one. When they talk about legal status that is code for second-class status.
I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.