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Top 15 Sara Eckel Quotes (2025 Update)

Sara Eckel Quote: “When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink. But when you try to sink, you float.”

1. “When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink. But when you try to sink, you float.”

Sara Eckel Quote: “Feeling lonely made me feel like a loser, a failure, an outcast.”

2. “Feeling lonely made me feel like a loser, a failure, an outcast.”

Sara Eckel Quote: “The demons feed on resistance, so when you aren’t afraid of them – when you can simply see them objectively and name them – they have nothing to work with. And when that happens, I’ve noticed that they very slowly leave.”

3. “The demons feed on resistance, so when you aren’t afraid of them – when you can simply see them objectively and name them – they have nothing to work with. And when that happens, I’ve noticed that they very slowly leave.”

Sara Eckel Quote: “When you’re experiencing that year-in, year-out challenge of being on your own, it’s easy to ask the question “What does everyone else know that I don’t?” I suggest you flip that around.”

4. “When you’re experiencing that year-in, year-out challenge of being on your own, it’s easy to ask the question “What does everyone else know that I don’t?” I suggest you flip that around.”

Sara Eckel Quote: “Not only does self-compassion soften life’s blows, it can also strengthen your ability to bounce back.”

5. “Not only does self-compassion soften life’s blows, it can also strengthen your ability to bounce back.”

Sara Eckel Quote: “Married people like to say marriage is “work,” often with a smug, Protestant pride – as if they were plowing fields all day while their single friends sipped appletinis.”

6. “Married people like to say marriage is “work,” often with a smug, Protestant pride – as if they were plowing fields all day while their single friends sipped appletinis.”

Sara Eckel Quote: “The problem is that our society is structured around couples and families – and if you don’t fit neatly into one of those units, you often have to build.”

7. “The problem is that our society is structured around couples and families – and if you don’t fit neatly into one of those units, you often have to build.”

Sara Eckel Quote: “No one ever asks “Why are you married?” even though the question is just as valid as “Why are you single?” After all, people marry for many reasons other than pure love – fear of being alone, a desire for biological children, economic security, social status, health insurance.”

8. “No one ever asks “Why are you married?” even though the question is just as valid as “Why are you single?” After all, people marry for many reasons other than pure love – fear of being alone, a desire for biological children, economic security, social status, health insurance.”

Sara Eckel Quote: “People with self-compassion don’t try to convince themselves and others of their greatness; they simply focus on treating themselves kindly.”

9. “People with self-compassion don’t try to convince themselves and others of their greatness; they simply focus on treating themselves kindly.”

Sara Eckel Quote: “But there were those nights – those cold, January Saturday nights – when I’d gaze at the snow-covered streets, contemplating this solitary life I didn’t chose. I didn’t need an invitation to a glittery party or reservations at a hot restaurant –.”

10. “But there were those nights – those cold, January Saturday nights – when I’d gaze at the snow-covered streets, contemplating this solitary life I didn’t chose. I didn’t need an invitation to a glittery party or reservations at a hot restaurant –.”

Sara Eckel Quote: “There are people who are afraid to be alone, who head for the nearest warm body after each breakup, or who stay in miserable relationships because the alternative is so terrifying. But that’s not you, is it?”

11. “There are people who are afraid to be alone, who head for the nearest warm body after each breakup, or who stay in miserable relationships because the alternative is so terrifying. But that’s not you, is it?”

Sara Eckel Quote: “As of yet, there is no peer-reviewed data on the efficacy of journaling by candlelight.”

12. “As of yet, there is no peer-reviewed data on the efficacy of journaling by candlelight.”

Sara Eckel Quote: “But for many of us, living alone in a society that is so rigorously constructed around couples and nuclear families is hard on the soul.”

13. “But for many of us, living alone in a society that is so rigorously constructed around couples and nuclear families is hard on the soul.”

Sara Eckel Quote: “But here’s what the perennially partnered don’t understand: That love is always there, it just expresses itself in a completely different way.”

14. “But here’s what the perennially partnered don’t understand: That love is always there, it just expresses itself in a completely different way.”

Sara Eckel Quote: “The people in your life either understand where you are coming from or they don’t. It’s not your job to convince them that you’re happy or a legitimate adult. It’s also not your job to determine whether another’s perceived self-satisfaction is born of genuine contentment or insecurity. Your job is to take care of yourself so you can meet others where they are.”

15. “The people in your life either understand where you are coming from or they don’t. It’s not your job to convince them that you’re happy or a legitimate adult. It’s also not your job to determine whether another’s perceived self-satisfaction is born of genuine contentment or insecurity. Your job is to take care of yourself so you can meet others where they are.”

Sara Eckel Quote: “Happiness was there the whole time. The problem was, I was so specific about the type of happiness I wanted that I far too often ruined a good thing.”

16. “Happiness was there the whole time. The problem was, I was so specific about the type of happiness I wanted that I far too often ruined a good thing.”

Sara Eckel Quote: “I don’t even like hot restaurants. I just wanted someone to sit next to me on the couch and watch bad reality TV. Someone who would split a six-pack and an order of pad Thai and wonder aloud if Kayla would finally get.”

17. “I don’t even like hot restaurants. I just wanted someone to sit next to me on the couch and watch bad reality TV. Someone who would split a six-pack and an order of pad Thai and wonder aloud if Kayla would finally get.”

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