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My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude. - Warsan Shire
我一個(gè)人感覺(jué)很不錯(cuò)，只有你的陪伴比我的獨(dú)處更甜蜜，我才會(huì)需要你?！稚べ悹?/div>

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they’re afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won’t do that. - Julie Delpy
很多女人因?yàn)楹ε聠紊矶谱约簯賽?ài)，然后就開(kāi)始妥協(xié)，失去個(gè)性。我是不會(huì)那樣做的?！禧悺さ?tīng)柋?/div>

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
以前，單身說(shuō)明你沒(méi)人要?，F(xiàn)在，單身說(shuō)明你很性感，說(shuō)明你正從容不迫地挑選自己想要的生活方式，挑選你想要與之一起生活的人。——《欲望都市》

Being single is getting over the illusion that there is somebody out there to complete you and taking charge of your own life. - Omkar Phatakc
不要幻想你的真命天子會(huì)來(lái)填補(bǔ)你的空缺、接管你的生活。真正的單身需要克服這種錯(cuò)覺(jué)?！獖W姆卡爾·帕塔科

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can’t afford to be with them. - Sloane Crosley
如果一個(gè)人要在你的要求下才會(huì)改變、才會(huì)說(shuō)愛(ài)你、才會(huì)在吃晚飯時(shí)帶酒、才會(huì)在飛機(jī)降落后給你打電話，那你們之間的關(guān)系是你無(wú)法承受的。——斯勞恩·克羅斯利

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. - Elizabeth Gilbert
這些天以來(lái)，我孤獨(dú)的時(shí)候會(huì)想：孤獨(dú)就孤獨(dú)吧，利茲。摸清孤獨(dú)周圍的路，做一張地圖，好好跟孤獨(dú)相處吧，這可是你從來(lái)沒(méi)試過(guò)的。歡迎前來(lái)體驗(yàn)人生。不要再用別人的身體或感情來(lái)填補(bǔ)自己內(nèi)心的空虛了。——伊利莎白·吉爾伯特

Personally, I, Mindy Kaling want to spend like 80 percent of my life hanging out with women. - Mindy Kaling
我明迪·卡琳想要用80%的人生和女人一起玩。——明迪·卡琳

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin
一個(gè)女人期望著男人給她建造她理想中的世界，而不是自己親手創(chuàng)造，這真是大錯(cuò)特錯(cuò)?！⒛纫了埂?/div>

It seemed to me that the desire to get married – which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women – is followed almost immediately?by an equally basic and primal urge?– which is to be single again. - Nora Ephron
在我看來(lái)，結(jié)婚的渴望是存在于女人最根本的思想當(dāng)中的，這真是令我深感抱歉，而且這種渴望幾乎馬上會(huì)被一種同樣根本的訴求，也就是重新單身，所取代?！Z拉·埃夫龍

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
孤獨(dú)是好事，因?yàn)楣律硪蝗瞬⒉蝗菀?。一件事很困難也是去做這件事的理由?！餇柨?/span>

I celebrate myself, and sing myself. - Walt Whitman
我為自己歡慶，為自己歌唱?！譅柼亍せ萏芈?/div>

Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn’t all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20’s, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it. - Andy Hertzfeld
爭(zhēng)取長(zhǎng)時(shí)間單身是很好的，因?yàn)閱紊頃r(shí)你的時(shí)間就是屬于你的。一旦你成家了，你的時(shí)間就不再全部屬于你了。我們大部分蘋(píng)果電腦產(chǎn)品團(tuán)隊(duì)的成員都是25歲上下，大部分都是單身，所以我們可以全身心地投入工作?！驳稀ず掌澐茽柕?/div>

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to. - Eric Dickerson
我喜歡單身。我想來(lái)就來(lái)想走就走，想多晚回家就多晚回家。——埃里克·迪克森

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
你不需要?jiǎng)e人的愛(ài)，至少不是以犧牲自我為代價(jià)。單身關(guān)系就是與自我相處，是生活中真正重要關(guān)系。在你一生認(rèn)識(shí)的人中，唯一永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)失去的就是你自己?！獑獭?kù)爾德

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts. - Thomas Merton
如果我們?cè)谧晕抑鈱ふ覙?lè)土，那我們的內(nèi)心就不會(huì)擁有樂(lè)土。——托馬斯·默頓

Now I’m feeling how I should. Never knew single could feel this good. - Jason Derulo
現(xiàn)在我知道我該怎么做了，我以前從不知道單身也能讓我感覺(jué)怎么好。——杰森·德魯羅

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 as you’re still involved. - Dido Armstrong
重回單身真的讓我很享受。我在一段感情中花了很多時(shí)間，越臨近結(jié)束，這段感情就越艱難。旁觀者清，當(dāng)局者迷啊?！俣洹ぐ⒛匪固乩?/div>

I think, therefore I’m single. - Liz Winston
我思，故我單身?！蚱?溫斯特

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. - Voltaire
婚姻是唯一對(duì)懦弱之人開(kāi)放的冒險(xiǎn)。——伏爾泰

We did not come to remain whole.

We came to lose our leaves like the trees,

Trees that start again. - Robert Bly

我們來(lái)不是為全身而退，

我們來(lái)是為了像樹(shù)一樣落葉，

像樹(shù)一樣重新開(kāi)始?！亍げ既R

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another’s happiness. - Graham Greene
沒(méi)有人可以真正地理解他人，沒(méi)有人可以安排他人的幸福?！窭锥蚰贰じ窳?/div>

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
盲目的愛(ài)是自私的，因?yàn)檫@種愛(ài)不是出于為對(duì)方著想，而僅僅只是自我靈魂所做的愛(ài)情練習(xí)?！旭R斯·默頓

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. - Henry David Thoreau
我從沒(méi)找到過(guò)比“獨(dú)處”更好相處的伴侶。——亨利·戴維·梭羅

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world. - Mindy Kaling
我把愛(ài)情喜劇看作是不入流的科幻，那里的世界用著和正常人類世界不一樣的規(guī)則?！鞯稀た?/div>

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. - Hermann Hesse
有的人認(rèn)為堅(jiān)持會(huì)讓我們變得更強(qiáng)大，但有時(shí)候放手才會(huì)讓我們變得更強(qiáng)大?！諣柭ず谌?/div>

I like being single, I’m always there when I need me. - Art Leo
我喜歡單身，在我需要的時(shí)候我自己總會(huì)在我身邊?！柼亍だ讱W

Discover why you’re important, then refuse to settle for anyone who doesn’t completely agree. - Fisher Amelie
尋找證明自己重要的理由，然后拒絕和不能完全同意的人在一起?！M(fèi)希爾·艾米麗

I don’t like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone. - Delta Burke
我不想只是因?yàn)槲沂仟?dú)自一人就被貼上孤獨(dú)的標(biāo)簽?！?tīng)査げ?/div>

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. - Elizabeth Gilbert
心碎是個(gè)好兆頭，說(shuō)明我們?cè)?jīng)嘗試過(guò)?！晾住ぜ獱柌?/div>

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself. - Warsan Shire
我沒(méi)有愛(ài)人，但我擁有愛(ài)。我可愛(ài)、孤獨(dú)，我就屬于我自己?！稚べ悹?/span>

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