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

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

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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

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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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

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

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All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

—Alexandre Dumas

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It's okay to be impatient. As long as you show your patience on the outside.

—Lisa M. Cronkhite in Disconnected

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow cycles of nature, is a help.

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What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

—Edith Sitwell

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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.