Happy people against colourful backdrops

Falling in honey with yourself is the all-time kind of dear story. (Film: Getty)

The mere act of living single is still considered a political or deliberate human action in some schools of idea.

People assume beingness single is either an human activity of defiance – a refusal to follow social club's rules – or they think the opposite, and that information technology'southward something to be shamed or a failure.

But really, what if it's neither? What if someone is perfectly happy being single, and just isn't interested in mingling.

This is for those people: the people who are happy just being happy, waiting to run across what life has waiting around the corner for them and no pressure for that to include beloved, marriage, and a baby carriage.

All-time quotes nigh beingness single

'You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to everyone.' – Maya Angelou

'Discover why you're important, then decline to settle for anyone who doesn't completely agree.' – Fisher Amelie

'To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.' – Oscar Wilde

Young woman waking up stretching in bed

Having the bed to yourself is simply i benefit of living single. (Picture: Getty)

'My lonely feels so expert, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.' – Warsan Shire

'Single isn't a condition. But information technology's a word that describes a person who is potent enough to alive and bask life without depending on others.' – origin unknown

'The about exciting, challenging and significant human relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if yous find someone to love the you you love, well, that'due south but fabulous.' – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

'The human who follows the oversupply will usually get no further than the oversupply. The man who walks alone is likely to discover himself in places no one has e'er been before.' – Alan Ashley-Pitt

'I'm single considering I was born that manner.' – Mae West

'We are complete with or without a mate, with or without a child. Nosotros get to decide for ourselves what is beautiful when it comes to our bodies. That determination is ours and ours alone.' – Jennifer Aniston

Young Woman Taking A Breath Of Fresh Air In Nature

Single people have more opportunity to really connect to themselves and the world around them. (Movie: Getty)

Quotes most refusing to stay in a bad relationship

Sometimes, being single comes about because someone finally decides that the situation they're in isn't working.

'Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you tin never tell' – Joan Crawford

'It'due south better to be good for you solitary than sick with someone else' – Phil McGraw

'Sometimes information technology takes heartbreak to shake us awake and aid us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.' – Mandy Unhurt

'The virtually painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone likewise much, and forgetting that you are special also.' – Ernest Hemingway

You lot've got to learn to leave the table when love's no longer being served – Nina Simone

Memes for unmarried people

Single meme

So truthful! (Film: Pinterest)

Single meme

Goals (Movie: Pinterest)

Single meme

Unsolicited communication (Pic: @MyTherapistSays/Instagram)

Single meme

Food is bae (Motion-picture show: Pinterest)

Single meme

Don't touch what yous can't afford (Picture: Pinterest)

Best songs about being single and unmarried anthems

Independent Women, Destiny'southward Child

This one is for the ladies and theydies who have no trouble property themselves down.

An anthem for those who are living the single life well – paying their bills, treating themselves and non in any hurry to settle down – or settle, full stop.

Ridin' Solo, Jason DeRulo

An anthem for those who feel confident every bit a party of one – riding solo and riding high.

Believe, Cher

This i is a picayune different in tone; this is an anthem for those who perhaps were in a relationship that, for whatever reason, didn't pan out.

Yous might have been in dear – and happily and then – but love coming to an end doesn't mean life coming to an end.

Single Ladies, Beyoncé

This ane goes without proverb.

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