The Single Woman

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

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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 in The Single Woman

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.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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 in The Single Woman

We can let go of the person or love or friendship without letting go of the lesson.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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 in The Single Woman

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

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

Someone out there is looking for exactly what you've got… and will never try and undercut your value or question your worth.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn't settle for it.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

You don't need a significant other to lead a significant life.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

I would rather be alone with dignity than in a relationship that requires me to sacrifice my self-respect.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

If you're still waiting for it, it means 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 in The Single Woman

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

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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 in The Single Woman

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

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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 in The Single Woman

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 in The Single Woman

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

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman