Mandy Hale Quotes

#1. But at night, once I had taken off my makeup and my defenses were down and my mind started to wander, it seemed rather than new love sitting down at the table of my life to join me, old love managed to find its way back in ...

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#2. YOU ARE SOMETHING BETTER.

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#3. My point is this: When you live in shackles to other people's opinions and moods and judgments, it is the equivalent of becoming a human streamer.

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#4. She screws up - a lot. She stumbles and she falls. She gets it wrong as often as she gets it right. But she never gives up the fight.

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#5. What now seems wrong, unfair, and ridiculous will all make sense later.

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#6. The only thing we single ladies need to be rescued from is the notion that we need to be rescued.

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#7. To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look.

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#8. Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it.

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#9. When life brings you full circle, pay attention. There's a lesson there.

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#10. Even most churches don't really know what to do with their singles. They teach classes on "preparing for marriage," "waiting for marriage," and "praying for marriage," but what about just honoring exactly who you are in this moment instead of always prepping for the next phase of life?

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#11. Celebrate the people in your life who are there because they love you for no other reason than because you are YOU.

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#12. 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.

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#13. There is never a moment when God is not in control. Relax! He's got you covered.

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#14. Timing is everything. What good is finding the RIGHT thing if it's the WRONG time?

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#15. Throw down her expectations, throw up her hands, and enjoy the ride. Because it's not going to turn out the way she thought it would. It's going to turn out so much better.

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#16. You are FAR too fabulous to cling to someone or something that doesn't fit you, doesn't want you, or doesn't belong to you. While you're clinging to the WRONG thing, you're letting the RIGHT thing slip right through your fingers!

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#17. When you refuse to settle for less than the best ... the best tends to track you down.

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#18. It's not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and make your happiness a priority. It's necessary.

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#19. Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are ... and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.

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#20. Don't pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale.

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#21. You can't truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss.

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#22. Realize that if a door closed, it's because what was behind it wasn't meant for you.

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#23. You're beautiful, just the way you are. Shine on. And dare anyone to turn off the lights.

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#24. 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.

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#25. It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please ... be selective.

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#26. Our friends have a way of reminding us of how fabulous we are when the rest of the world has forgotten.

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#27. Life is too short for constant struggle and pain. LET IT GO and move on to the beauty and light.

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#28. Allow yourself to hope, to believe and to trust again. Don't let a few bad memories stop you from having a good life!

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#29. You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.

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#30. Stop inviting people who don't celebrate you to your party! It's YOUR life - you have the right to be exclusive.

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#31. There also seems to be a lack of things to talk about among singles and takens. The common ground between us seems to shrink smaller and smaller with each passing year.

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#32. If a man WANTS to be with you, he will make his actions clear. There won't be any questions, murkiness, cloudiness, or fear.

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#33. You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them ... but still move on without them.

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#34. When something or someone is no longer bringing you up, but pulling you down - it's time to let go. When something or someone is no longer adding to your life, but subtracting from it - it's time to let go.

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#35. The less you respond to rude, critical, argumentative people ... the more peaceful your life will become.

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#36. The things we don't stress tend to turn out best. Trust and let go.

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#37. Was I always your option ... while you were my choice?

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#38. Change starts with YOU. When you step up, you invite others to step up, too.

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#39. Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.

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#40. Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.

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#41. Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.

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#42. Learn from your failure's; do not prevent misfortune from teaching you.

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#43. Love is a beautiful, wonderful, and even sacred thing, but until it arrives, shouldn't we give ourselves permission to thrive?

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#44. It can seem as if the single season of life is going to drag on forever and ever.

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#45. The person you're meant to be with will never have to be chased, begged or given an ultimatum

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#46. The solitude, bravery, and uncertain path of the modern-day single woman is something to be applauded as bold and courageous and unique, not lauded as sad or pathetic or weak. As

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#47. Single ladies, we are not Damsels in Distress ... we are Divas that Impress!

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#48. Single is a choice, just like Married is.

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#49. Don't waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.

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#50. Happy is still Happy, with or without the Ever After.

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#51. Until you get comfortable with being alone, you'll never know if you're choosing someone out of love or loneliness.

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#52. Here's a glorious thought: You don't have to settle. Ever. In life, in love, in your career ... ANYWHERE!

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#53. Pick your battles. You don't have to show up to every arguement you're invited to.

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#54. You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.

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#55. When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.

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#56. God can turn your biggest flaws into your biggest cause.

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#57. Don't wait until you're faced with someone's absence to acknowledge the importance of their presence. Love them now. Realize that the flaws, irritations, bad habits, and imperfections are all a part of what makes them, and you, unique, special, and rare to this universe.

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#58. Sometimes a "mistake" can end up being the best decision you ever make.

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#59. Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love ... but don't put your life on hold waiting for love

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#60. Strong women don't play victim, don't make themselves look pitiful, & don't point fingers. They stand & they deal.

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#61. She has to have four arms, four legs, four eyes, two hearts, and double the love. There is nothing "single" about a single mom.

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#62. 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.

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#63. Happiness begins with you. Not with your relationship, your friends, or your job. but with you.

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#64. You are here for a reason. There is nothing accidental about you. There is a specific purpose, assignment, and mission on earth that only you can fulfill. Never doubt your specialness.

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#65. Your lives are on two separate tracks and it seems as though there's simply no going back. And as much as you love her and cherish the memories you've shared together, you know in your heart that the friendship has run its course.

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#66. 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.

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#67. If you don't love yourself, you'll always be chasing after people who don't love you either.

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#68. No matter how attractive a person's potential may be, you have to date their reality.

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#69. Happiness doesn't have to be chased ... it merely has to be chosen.

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#70. SO DO THE THING. TAKE THE LEAP. TRY SOMETHING RIDICULOUS, OR CRAZY, OR BRAVE. NO MATTER HOW IT TURNS OUT, YOU WILL NEVER REGRET CHOOSING TO LIVE - WILD, BOLD, AND FREE.

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#71. Your thoughts are like a magnet; they determine what you attract. So if you want to live in abundance, stop focusing on what you lack!

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#72. Stand strong in your worth and don't let anyone talk you out of it.

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#73. Red flags are moments of hesitation that determine our destination.

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#74. You will never gain anyone's approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows.

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#75. Self-love, self-respect, self-approval, and self-worth do not equal self-ish.

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#76. When you stop blooming where you've been planted, it's time to put down new roots.

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#77. Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE.

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#78. Some relationships just don't work out, no matter how bad both parties might want them to. Sometimes time, distance, and circumstances get in the way. And sometimes we have a purpose for our lives that couldn't be fulfilled inside the bounds of that relationship.

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#79. Take care of someone else. Be there for someone else. Bless someone else. A happy life is about GIVING more than you TAKE.

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#80. The right one for you will move mountains to be with you - he won't hide behind them.

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#81. She has moments of panic when she wonders if her Prince Charming got lost somewhere or decided to settle for another less complicated, less stubborn, less independent princess.

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#82. The WHY of letting it go is quite simple: You have to let go of what is NOT meant for you in order to receive what IS. So now I ask you: What are YOU willing to let go of today,

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#83. YOU ARE STRONGER AND BIGGER AND BRAVER THAN WHAT THEY DID, AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO LET IT DEFINE YOU ANY LONGER. FORGIVE. LET GO. MOVE ON. DON'T LOOK BACK. YOUR NEW BEGINNING IS WAITING.

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#84. 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!

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#85. Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.

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#86. You cannot ask someone to like you or love you more than you like or love yourself. YOU have to set the standard.

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#87. You have a destiny and a purpose that no one else on this earth can fulfill ... and you have traveled a unique journey that has equipped you along the way with the tools you need to carry it out.

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#88. My journey, however, has followed a far less predictable story: stalled chapters, unexpected plot twists, and dozens of rewrites that have left the ending more than a little uncertain.

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#89. Sometimes you have to move on without certain people. If they're meant to be in your life, they'll catch up.

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#90. If they want to be in your life, they'll find a way to be in your life. Otherwise they'll find excuses.

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#91. Happily Single is also the precursor to Happily Taken. You simply can't have one without the other.

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#92. Perhaps sometimes in life, no matter how much you want to, you can't grow into the person you are meant to be while you're standing in the shade or the sunlight of someone else.

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#93. 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.

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#94. 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.

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#95. Not everything in life has to be about finding "The One." Sometimes a girl just wants to have fun.

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#96. Because sometimes, even when you see someone headed for a collision, all you can do is step out of the way and let it happen, hoping there will be something left to salvage after the wreckage is cleared.

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#97. We have to release our plans to realize God's greater purpose

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#98. You've gotta love yourself enough to look INSIDE you & not BESIDE you for your joy, confidence, & self worth.

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#99. A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know.

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#100. The only keeper of your happiness is you. Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth and your attitude.

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