What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single Quotes

“This might be a good time to express a little thought: If you really don’t want to marry someone, that’s probably a good sign that you shouldn’t. (You might want to jot that one down somewhere.)”
― John Bytheway, What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single

“And when it comes to relationships, I would spend less money on extravagant dates at nice restaurants and spend more time talking and sharing ideas. I would focus less on trying to find someone and more on trying to become someone. I would be careful with the feelings of others in my words and expressions of affection. I would try not to let breakups break me up. I would never give up on dating, but I would give up on worrying and stewing about it. When people approached my piano with their advice, I would smile and say, “I’m doing my best.”
― John Bytheway, What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single

“I answered, “Because you want them. In the eternal scheme of things that will be of inestimable and eternal value.” The Lord has said that he “will judge all men according to their works; according to the desire of their hearts” (D&C 137:9).”
― John Bytheway, What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single

“One of the best things I did during my single years was read books and listen to tapes on marriage. (You can’t be too conspicuous, of course.) I learned so much about what makes good marriages work that it changed why I dated, how I dated, and even whom I dated.”
― John Bytheway, What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single

“I think some of the most attractive traits a person can have are a happy disposition, a good dose of appropriate self-confidence, and a sense of purpose.”
― John Bytheway, What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single

“Aside from the giddy high school feelings, real love makes you: Feel a desire to achieve Feel inspired to do your best Want to make the most of yourself Think your noblest thoughts Aspire to your finest deeds Wish you were better than you are”
― John Bytheway, What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single

“love, and I wanted to know what it felt like. I didn’t want Hollywood’s definition; I wanted one I could trust. Some of my questions included: Can you choose to fall in love with someone? Is falling in love a spiritual feeling?”
― John Bytheway, What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single

“Someone with whom you can spend the whole day and never feel bored or lonely. Someone who is the first person you want to tell when something exciting happens to you. Someone you really like.”
― John Bytheway, What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single

“It’s important to marry someone you love, but it’s also important to marry someone you like. In other words, you like being together, you like to do the same things, you like each other. You’re friends! Romance may have ups and downs, but friendship endures.”
― John Bytheway, What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single

“marry someone you’re attracted to inside and out, marry your best friend, and marry someone you love.”
― John Bytheway, What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single

“Doctrine and Covenants 111:11: “Therefore, be ye as wise as serpents and yet without sin; and I will order all things for your good, as fast as ye are able to receive them.”
― John Bytheway, What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single

“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9).”
― John Bytheway, What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single

“a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. . . . Always have something ahead of you to ‘look forward to’—to work for and hope for”
― John Bytheway, What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single

“Without this type of intimacy, you may be tempted to look elsewhere for friendship.”
― John Bytheway, What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single

“I feel confident that the Lord will not leave us alone in making this major decision, and we can expect to be guided, even if we don’t realize it at the time.”
― John Bytheway, What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single

“but all I did was pray to the Lord and ask for some guidance and direction in connection with the decision that I’d reached. A more perfect thing to have done would have been to counsel with him relative to the decision and get a spiritual confirmation that the conclusion, which I by my agency and faculties had arrived at, was the right one. (“Agency or Inspiration?” New Era, January 1975, p. 40)”
― John Bytheway, What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single

“Elder James E. Faust expressed a similar feeling this way: “Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness” (Ensign, November 1977, p. 11).”
― John Bytheway, What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single