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 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

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

—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

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

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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

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When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them.

—Tana French in The Likeness

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We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had tried to ignore his own suffering and the suffering of other people because he had wanted to be happy. Yet becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy. The part in us that feels suffering is the same as the part that feels joy.

—Rachel Naomi Remen

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When there’s something or someone, when there’s anything that makes you happy, you don’t let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart.

—Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly

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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

—William Butler Yeats

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Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!

—Torquato Tasso

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