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Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.Mandy Hale
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A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.Mandy Hale
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Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.Mandy Hale
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Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.Mandy Hale
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One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.Mandy Hale
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Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.Mandy Hale
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Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them.Mandy Hale
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If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.Mandy Hale
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Single is no longer a lack of options — but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.Mandy Hale
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Single” is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.Mandy Hale
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Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED.Mandy Hale
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There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.Mandy Hale
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The more you go with the flow of life and surrender the outcome to God, and the less you seek constant clarity, the more you will find that fabulous things start to show up in your life.Mandy Hale
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There is never a moment when God is not in control. Relax! He’s got you covered.Mandy Hale
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You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in. .Mandy Hale
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Happily Single" is recognizing that you don’t need or want to be rescued from your life by a handsome prince because your life is pretty awesome, as is.Mandy Hale
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Happiness doesn't have to be chased...it merely has to be chosen.Mandy Hale
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Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.Mandy Hale
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Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you.Mandy Hale
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It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.Mandy Hale
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Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place.Mandy Hale
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There’s something really cool about knowing that your destiny is SO big that you’re not meant to share it with anyone. At least not yet.Mandy Hale
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What we are waiting for is not as important as what happens to us while we are waiting. Trust the process.Mandy Hale
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Be a bit of a challenge not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.Mandy Hale
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Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will.Mandy Hale
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When life brings you full circle, pay attention. There's a lesson there.Mandy Hale
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Celebrate the people in your life who are there because they love you for no other reason than because you are YOU.Mandy Hale
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.Mandy Hale
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There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.Mandy Hale
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Outer beauty pleases the EYE. Inner beauty captivates the HEART.Mandy Hale
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Consider the fact that maybe…just maybe…beauty and worth aren’t found in a makeup bottle, or a salon-fresh hairstyle, or a fabulous outfit. Maybe our sparkle comes from somewhere deeper inside, somewhere so pure and authentic and REAL, it doesn’t need gloss or polish or glitter to shine.Mandy Hale
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Maybe it’s NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it.Mandy Hale
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Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.Mandy Hale
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Single |sin-gle| (adjective) - Too fabulous to settle.Mandy Hale
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You will never gain anyone's approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows.Mandy Hale
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To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look.Mandy Hale
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Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE.Mandy Hale
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Single" means you are brave enough to face the glorious unknown of the unaccompanied journey.Mandy Hale
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Sometimes a "mistake" can end up being the best decision you ever make.Mandy Hale
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She hasn’t got it all figured out...far from it, in fact. But she loves God and she loves to dance…and she’s her own “Better Half.”The bravest woman I know? She is the reason I do what I do. She is The Single Woman.She’s me…and she’s you.Mandy Hale
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The way you treat people who are in no position to help you, further you, or benefit you reveals the true state of your heart.Mandy Hale
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You don't have to knock anyone off their game to win yours. It doesn’t build you up to tear others down.Mandy Hale
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We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.Mandy Hale
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Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone's heart.Mandy Hale
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If you’re still waiting for it, it mean you’re not yet ready for it…whatever “it” is…so stop looking at waiting as a punishment and start looking at it as preparation!Mandy Hale
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There is nothing that can happen TO you that can’t also happen FOR you…if you’ll let it.Mandy Hale
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The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be.Mandy Hale
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In the midst of our struggle to find out who we are, there are infinite possibilities for beauty, and hope, and wonder, and love.Mandy Hale
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Change starts with YOU. When you step up, you invite others to step up, too.Mandy Hale
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You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them…but still move on without them.Mandy Hale
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It makes no sense to try to extend a friendship that was only meant to be a season into a lifetime.Mandy Hale
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Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate.Mandy Hale
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It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.Mandy Hale
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Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn’t SETTLE for it.Mandy Hale
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If there is a particular person in your life that is repeatedly choosing not to honor you and is causing you more sadness or pain than they are joy - it might be time to release that friendship back to God and trust that it is not where you belong.Mandy Hale
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True strength is knowing that you don't have to be strong every single second of the day.Mandy Hale
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It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please…be selective.Mandy Hale
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Don't ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON'T.Mandy Hale
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Stop inviting people who don't celebrate you to your party! It's YOUR life - you have the right to be exclusive.Mandy Hale
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If a man WANTS to be with you, he will make his actions clear. There won’t be any questions, murkiness, cloudiness, or fear.Mandy Hale
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You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss.Mandy Hale
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If God closes a door AND a window, consider the fact that it might be time to build a whole new house.Mandy Hale
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Don't pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale.Mandy Hale
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We can let go of the person or love or friendship without letting go of the lesson.Mandy Hale
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Breakups have a way of shaking us awake and helping us see what we really want vs. what we are willing to settle for.Mandy Hale
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If something on the inside is telling you that someone isn’t right for you, they’re NOT right for you, no matter how great they might look on paper. When it’s right for you, you will know. And when it’s not — it’s time to go.Mandy Hale
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Our friends have a way of reminding us of how fabulous we are when the rest of the world has forgotten.Mandy Hale
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Look around you at the people you spend the most time with and realize that your life can’t rise any higher than your friendships.Mandy Hale
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Keep your head up, your faith strong, and your eyes open for the little miracles all around you…because they are there, just waiting to be discovered.Mandy Hale
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Love shouldn’t require Windex to be clear. It either is or it isn’t.Mandy Hale
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The wonderful, beautiful thing that happens when you rid yourself of the things that don’t see your worth? You make space in your life for all the glorious things you deserve.Mandy Hale
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Your message, your ministry, your influence is built from your flaws. People relate to HUMANITY...not perfection.Mandy Hale
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Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget.Mandy Hale
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When God requires us to surrender one dream, it’s because He wants to hand us a bigger and better one.Mandy Hale
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The things we don’t stress tend to turn out best. Trust and let go.Mandy Hale
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Red flags are moments of hesitation that determine our destination.Mandy Hale
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Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he’ll treat you like a doormat. Make him work a little to get next to you, and he won’t stop til you’re his.Mandy Hale
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That’s the thing about fear. It can only hang around until faith enters the room, then it’s forced to flee.Mandy Hale
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God can turn your biggest flaws into your biggest cause.Mandy Hale
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To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it…it’s over. It can hurt you no more.Mandy Hale
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Not everyone has to ride off into the sunset with a man. Some of us just want a tan.Mandy Hale
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A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.Mandy Hale
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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 realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.Mandy Hale
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No matter how much you stress or obsess about the past or future, you can't change either one. In the present is where your power lies.Mandy Hale
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There is no model, no actress, no Miss America contender that can outshine a happy, confident, secure woman.Mandy Hale
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Find yourself first…like yourself first…love yourself FIRST…& friendship & love will naturally find YOU.Mandy Hale
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She has to have four arms, four legs, four eyes, two hearts, and double the love. There is nothing “single” about a single mom.Mandy Hale
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Next time you hit a speed bump otherwise known as the age-old question “Why are you still single?” look ’em in the eye and say: “Because I’m too fabulous to settle.Mandy Hale
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Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it.Mandy Hale
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Think about it this way: While being married is about becoming the WIFE you are meant to be, being single allows you to focus on becoming the WOMAN you were born to be.Mandy Hale
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A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know.Mandy Hale
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You’ve gotta love yourself enough to look INSIDE you & not BESIDE you for your joy, confidence, & self worth.Mandy Hale
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If you’ve been there, done that, gotten the t-shirt, isn’t it time to move on to a new destination? Don’t waste a lot of time stressing the “could have’s” — because if it should have, it would have!Mandy Hale
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Stand strong in your worth and don't let anyone talk you out of it.Mandy Hale
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You’re beautiful, just the way you are. Shine on. And dare anyone to turn off the lights.Mandy Hale
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Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are…and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.Mandy Hale
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Here’s a little secret that’s going to save you a LOT of unnecessary grief in life. Are you ready? Your worth is not tied to any person.Mandy Hale
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It’s better to be a “misfit” than a “one-size-fits-all”!Mandy Hale
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When you refuse to settle for less than the best...the best tends to track you down.Mandy Hale
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If you want your life to be a five-star reality, you have to stop settling for a fast food mentality!Mandy Hale