Justin Vernon Quotes

To me 'they lived happily ever after' means to be happy with yourself! My parents always taught me that being happy has to work without Prince Charming. My life is completed without a prince but it's nice of course to have someone who loves you and fights for you.

I lay in bed at night by myself and I’m totally okay, and that’s so much stronger than the person three years ago, who would have thought they would have died if they didn’t have a boyfriend.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

I'm a huge believer in you don't really need anybody to make you feel validated or make you feel secure. When you go to sleep at night, you're with yourself, and when you wake up, you're with yourself. Be happy, just alone, regardless if you're with somebody or not.

Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered.

Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

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

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

I don't have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.

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.

Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything.

I don't feel like, unless I have a boyfriend or somebody to march down the aisle with for the fifth time, that I'm 'Oh, poor me.' I'm not going to go running out desperately looking, making myself crazy and thinking that, without that, I'm nothing.

People say you've got to be OK with your own company, but tell me why?

I have nothing to prove to anybody.

I don't feel like I have to prove anybody right or wrong.

If my team and family are happy for me, I'm not going to let what some fans think affect me in any way.

I don't need a person to make me happy.

I don't need to be validated by anybody else; I don't need to be accepted or approved of for my happiness.

I don't have to prove anything to anyone.