Michael Scott Quotes

Being single has definitely given me a new lease of life.

So many people think being single is the end of something, but it's really a beginning - a good beginning.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

I realised I was living in my own universe with lots of assistants. I didn't have a cell phone; I didn't know how to use a computer. Everybody was doing everything for me. So I left and moved to New York. It was the end of an era, and I must say I found myself a bit lost. I wasn't in the protected Mugler universe any more.

I'm single. I had to make a few changes in my life.

I have to have the wheel. It's given me an opportunity to experience and explore things.

I know that I'm glad to be divorced and on my own.

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

Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

I've had somebody on the end of the phone, maybe, but I haven't been living with anyone or been in a proper relationship, and it's been really great. And now I'm completely on my own. I think I've grown up a lot.

Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.

No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of your own volition, on a trip funded by your own coffee tin of wrinkled up dollars - bills you've saved and scrounged for, worked the all-night switchboard for, missed the Rolling Stones for, sold fragrant pot with smashed flowers going brown inside twist-tie plastic baggies for. In fact, to disembark from your origins, you've done everything you can think to scrounge money save selling your spanking young pussy.

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

There is nothing more thrilling than arriving in a new place on your own and feeling the sense of possibility and excitement that brings with it.

I don't think I'm old enough or experienced enough to give anyone any guidance. All I would like say is that as long as you're having fun, I think you're doing the right thing.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

You should wear what you want to wear and not worry about trying to paint yourself in a certain image because that self-awareness is what's going to help you become a more independent and more interesting and healthier adult.

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

I'm going to hang out with people, and I'm going to explore myself, and I'm okay with that.

I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.

For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner.

It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.

I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.