Lauren London Quotes

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

There's so many nice things about being single; you have yourself really present with you like 100 percent.

The hand you hold the longest is your own.

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

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.

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

I honestly think being single's great. Being in a relationship's great. It's all about the timing.

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

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

The ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity to be alone is one of the highest levels of development. It's important to know how to self-soothe and be confident of other people's love even when they're not there in front of you.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

I've learnt to be happy by myself.

If we don't know how to be alone, we'll only know how to be lonely.

I am not afraid of being alone and single.

It took a lot of years of me on my own, coaching myself, to look in the mirror and love the reflection.

I think rather than being unhappy with somebody, being alone and happy is better.

My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.