Ira Gershwin Quotes

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

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.

Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.

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.'

You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.

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

I'm happy in my own world, and I'm also a good boy.

You don't need a man to make you happy, let's just be clear about that. All right?

What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.

I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.

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

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.

Life is more fun when you stop caring what other people think.

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

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

I always feel that it's great when you can be happy when you're by yourself. That's not a bad thing.

The world can only be free when men are content in themselves and each draws from his own fountain.

I'm looking to no man walking this earth for approval of what I'm doing.

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.

I've learnt to be happy by myself.

I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.

I am not afraid of being alone and single.

I don't need celebrity friends. I don't need new friends. I am what I am.

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