Sholom Aleichem Quotes

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

I'm not looking for anybody or anything. I'm just living my life.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

The will of man is his happiness.

Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.

I'm not afraid of my own company. I was made to be at home.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love being with myself and observing myself and learning something.

I love being by myself.

I like my life alone.

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don't have to.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.

Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.

I actually like spending time alone - it doesn't bother me at all.

What I try to do is live with myself and please me. If I can't do that, I can't please anybody else or live with anybody else.

When you feel complete, you don't need to get married, and you don't think about it.