You know that I love a good quote here at Write Change Grow. 🙂 Quotes can provide us with both inspiration and motivation. Today I want to focus on 20 enjoy your own company quotes.
When you enjoy your own company, you enjoy time spent on your own. You know how to entertain yourself, make yourself happy, sit peacefully with your own thoughts, and deal with feelings of boredom or loneliness.
As I do with all of my quote posts, I have added my thoughts after each quote to help provide you with some inspiration.
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Let’s jump into 20 enjoy your own company quotes.
I know what I bring to the table, so trust me, I am not afraid to eat alone. – Unknown
I love this quote because it is so empowering. It’s about knowing your worth and knowing exactly what you can bring to a relationship.
It’s about not being scared to do things on your own.
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What a lovely surprise to discover how unlonely being alone can be. – Ellen Burstyn
Back in my early twenties, after I got back from an overseas trip, I went to the Brisbane Expo on one of its busiest days. I was surrounded by over 100K people, yet I felt lonely. I felt lonely in a group of friendly people who were socialising, talking, and having a great time together.
It opened my eyes up to the difference between being alone and being lonely.
Since then, I have taken many trips overseas by myself and realised just how wonderful and even magical travelling on your own can be. What a lovely surprise to discover how unlonely being alone can be.
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Enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life. – Ann Richards
I know we all need to count on other people at times, but honestly, it is essential that we learn to count on ourselves.
As much as we might not want to accept it, people come and go, but you are the one consistent person for the rest of your life, so it’s important to learn to enjoy your own company.
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Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others. – Charlotte Eriksson
Your voice is important. Take the time and space to listen to it.
So many people don’t like silence. They like to be surrounded by noise so they don’t need to think.
Take the time to sit in silence.Â
When it comes to your voice, don’t let someone else’s voice drown out your own. Your voice matters.
Books that can help you enjoy your own company –
- Alonement: How to Be Alone and Absolutely Own It by Francesca Specter
- Only You: The Unexpected Gift of Being Alone by Dr Marny Lishman
- On My Own: The Art of Being a Woman Alone by Florence Falk
Happiness is being alone with your own thoughts. – Unknown
A lot of people keep themselves constantly busy so that they don’t have to deal with their own thoughts.
It’s a crazy idea that people think they can outrun what is going on in their own heads. You can’t escape yourself, and you shouldn’t try.
Don’t be afraid to be alone with your thoughts.
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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. – Rollo May
Many people fear solitude. I used to be one of them. I was scared of being alone.
Now, being alone doesn’t scare me. To be honest, since being diagnosed with a chronic illness and being very unwell, I have realised that there are much bigger things in life to be scared of.
Solitude is something that should be embraced, not feared. Solitude can be an essential part of creativity and invention.
Learn to be alone and like it. There is nothing more freeing and empowering than learning to like your own company. – Mandy Hale
The key point in this quote is the part about liking being alone.
A lot of people spend time alone, but they hate it. They fight it. Spending time alone makes them feel miserable and depressed. They resent and sometimes fear any time they have to spend on their own.
When you empower yourself, you learn to enjoy your own company. You learn to love your own company.
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. – Maxwell Maltz
Become your own best friend.
Your best friend is someone you respect. Someone you treat with kindness and caring. Be that person to yourself.
Treat yourself as you would your best friend.
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When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships and validation from the wrong sources because you realise that the only approval and validation you need is your own. – Mandy Hale
This is another quote about being your own best friend.
When you validate yourself from within, your life opens up. When you stop seeking outside validation, you are more confident, more independent. You deal with rejection and criticism better and stop people pleasing.
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I’m all alone but I’m not lonely. – Haruki Murakami
It’s important to understand the difference between being alone and lonely. They don’t always mean the same thing. Not all people on their own are lonely, and a lot of people in relationships and families are very lonely.
The thing you really want to avoid is being constantly surrounded by people but still feeling isolated and lonely.
Don’t spend time with people who make you feel lonely.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you are alone with. – Wayne Dwyer
There is so much written about loving yourself, but what about liking yourself?
Knowing yourself and liking yourself is vital to your sense of self-worth, self-esteem, and the ability to enjoy your own company.
Like yourself and enjoy your time alone.
It’s an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That’s always been a tug of war for me. – Jodie Foster
I can really relate to this one. I am an introvert, and I enjoy spending time by myself. However, if I spend too much time alone, I can begin to feel isolated and lonely.
The last couple of years have been particularly challenging in this regard. Having a serious chronic illness means spending a lot of time at home on my own.
I have had to find peace with the isolation and loneliness. Thankfully, I have my beautiful cat to keep me company. I never feel alone with her around. 🙂
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Once you start loving your own presence, you stop chasing people in your life. – Unknown
I have been guilty of this one before. Back in my twenties, I chased romantic relationships that weren’t good for me because, deep down, I was scared of being on my own.
I thought I had stopped chasing people, but recently, I fell back into this trap. When I was diagnosed with a chronic illness, one of my closest friends disappeared from my life. She knew I was really sick and struggling, but she left me to cope on my own.
I missed my friend. I needed her. So I chased her, trying to get the friendship back. Eventually, we got back in touch, but after a while, she repeated her toxic behaviour of cancelling at the last minute, then ghosting me for long periods of time. The pattern was that after she ghosted me yet again, I would chase after her.
This time, I learned my lesson. I stopped chasing her and finally broke a years-long pattern.
No more chasing.
I like being single, I’m always there when I need me. – Art Leo
You need to be able to rely on yourself. It’s important to be there for yourself.
You must learn how to trust yourself and be there for yourself.
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I found being single is a gift in disguise because I fell in love with the person I am. – Unknown
This is another quote about self-love, and I could not agree with it more.
Fall in love with yourself. Enjoying your own company is a lot easier when you fall in love with yourself.
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Talk to yourself like you would someone you love. – Brene Brown
The ability to talk kindly to yourself should come naturally, but unfortunately, it’s not always that simple.
Somewhere along the line, we learn to criticise ourselves. We beat ourselves up and call ourselves nasty names. We are the very opposite of kind to ourselves.
Talk to yourself with love and compassion. Be kind to yourself.
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One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself. – Shannon L. Alder
Being yourself is important. When you are yourself, instead of pretending to be someone else, you will like yourself more. When you like yourself more, you enjoy your own company more.
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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. – Ernest Hemingway
A lot of people do this in a relationship. They lose themself in the other person and totally neglect their own wants and needs.
This can make them feel incredibly lonely and isolated, even when they have a partner in their life.
Real loneliness not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible. – Sydney J. Harris
Growing up, I remember how lonely my Mum was. The problem was that she was married to my Dad at the time. Being married or in a relationship does NOT mean that you won’t be lonely.
Some married people are a lot lonelier than single people. Being with the wrong person can be the loneliest thing of all. Pick your companions wisely.
You deserve the love you keep giving everyone else. – Unknown
I could not agree more with this one. I spent a lot of my time in my twenties and thirties giving my love to people who did not deserve it, all while not loving myself.
Now I love myself first. I give myself love because I deserve it.
Enjoy your own company quotes
Can you relate to any of these quotes? Which ones resonate with you?
Do you enjoy your own company, or is embracing your own company something you need to work on?
Enjoy your own company and embrace the time you spend on your own.
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