SOLITUDE

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself ". - Warsan Shire

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This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. - Elizabeth Gilbert

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Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. - Hermann Hesse

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To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls. - Thomas Merton

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No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. - Graham Greene

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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long a you're still involved. - Dido Armstrong

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If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts. - Thomas Merton

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You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose. - Jo Courdert

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It is good to be lonely, for being alone is not easy. The fact that something is difficult must be one more reason to do it. - Rilke

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Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with. - Sex and the City

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My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude. - Warsan Shire

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Hoping you'll have a sweet alone time with yourself as I am enjoying mine. Til then. 

via thoughtcatalog.com