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Mandy Hale

Quotes from Mandy Hale

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

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.

—Mandy Hale in but My Luggage Has

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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

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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

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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

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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 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 Bad Boy. This one will probably steal your heart in your early 20's, in those years when you're trying to figure out who you are and who you want to be, and discovering your wings seems to come with a side of rebellion. You'll think you can change him, but you can't. (And secretly, you won't want to, because if you did, he'd no longer be the boy who stole your heart.) He'll make you cry as much or more as he makes you laugh. Underneath it all, you suspect he has a heart of gold…and he probably does…but it will take years and many women after you to uncover it. Here's the thing about bad boys: In the end, they always walk away. But they don't leave you empty-handed. In their wake will be a girl who now knows what she wants out of love and what she won't ever again stand for. And she's finally learned how to say "Thanks, but no thanks" to anyone who doesn't meet that standard.

—Mandy Hale in Beautiful Uncertainty

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Love often doesn't make any sense at all. It likes to creep up on you when you're least expecting it, with the person you're least expecting it to be with. It climbs walls and crosses oceans to find you. When it's your time, love will track you down.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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