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

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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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Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

—Paul Gauguin

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Life can be unfair and unkind, but sometimes we just have to let go and let fate take over.

—Lisa De Jong in Plastic Hearts

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All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.

—Mitch Albom in The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

—Muhammad Ali

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained.… They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.

—Walt Whitman

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