“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,The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“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,The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.”
― Mandy Hale,The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.”
― Mandy Hale,The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“Single” is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.”
― Mandy Hale,The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“Single |sin•gle| (adjective) - Too fabulous to settle.”
― Mandy Hale,The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.”
― Mandy Hale,The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.”
― Mandy Hale,The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“There’s something really cool about knowing that your destiny is SO big that you’re not meant to share it with anyone. At least not yet.”
― Mandy Hale,The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“Happily Single" is recognizing that you don’t need or want to be rescued from your life by a handsome prince because your life is pretty awesome, as is.”
― Mandy Hale,The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“Women Empowerment Reminder of The Day. Always respect yourself as a woman. You attract what you are, so be very mindful of how you’re representing yourself. If you want respect, you must first learn how to respect yourself, first. Attracting negative attention is never a good thing. Be a woman of substance! Be a woman that both women and men respect, admire, and look up to. Don’t disrespect yourself by lowering your standards and accepting just anything that comes your way. It’s okay to be single! If you want a relationship of substance, you can’t keep entertaining people and things that mean you no good. Think about it! It’s all up to you.”
― Stephanie Lahart

“Removing someone out of your life
Can hurt like a knife,
But sometimes, it may be the only way for you to survive.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“That feeling you get when you want to tell some one you love them, and there is no one there..”
― Melody Carstairs

“Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.”
― Anthony Liccione

“The world always said to just be yourself, but it turned out when Evelyn was herself, no guys were at all interested, so she was left with games of make-believe, expressing enthusiasm for whatever the men wanted to do, be it rock climbing or going to a cheese-beer pairing or a Knicks game.”
― Stephanie Clifford,Everybody Rise

“After years of searching, I have found my soulmate, and it is myself. The bachelor is content. Oh, he still dates women from time to time, and he listens to the wedding marches sometimes too. But only because he likes them.”
― Marci Shimoff,Chicken Soup for the Single's Soul

“I never feel alone realizing the fact that my life is my only life partner”
― Munia Khan

“Single life shouldn't be a diet of junk food, aiming only to please one's lower appetites. It should be a time of preparation, the veggies that earn our dessert.”
― Amy E. Spiegel,Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity

“When a woman chooses to marry, she puts her life into his hands. When she chooses not to marry, she must be ready to put her life into her own hands. These quarrels are petty and tiresome, I grant you that, but there is something to be learned in them. They have a use.”
― Cynthia Voigt,The Callender Papers

“As a lone star in the vast universe, being single illuminates the night sky, reminding us that our uniqueness is the brightest guide.”
― Jerome McGinn

“I'm not waiting for a hero,
I saved myself long ago.
I don't need someone
to complete me,
I am whole alone.
I just want a weirdo to
go on adventures with.
Someone who will
dance with me,
kiss me when
I least expect it,
and make
me laugh.
That's all.”
― Brooke Hampton

“I’ve been single for a while, and each time I’m ready to date, the scene reminds me why I stay single.”
― Marion Bekoe

“Some of the absolute best times of my life had happened while I’d been single. My life was now completely unrecognizable from what it’d been from when I had last used the word boyfriend.”
― Nicola Slawson,Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms

“Since then, she has made it her mission to prove that untold numbers of people are what she calls, single at heart. She says, “People who are single at heart live their best, most fulfilling, meaningful, authentic, and psychologically rich lives by remaining single. They’re not single because they’re unhappy in love, or have had bad experiences, or they never met the right person, or that they have issues. They’re don’t believe it is better to be single than in a bad relationship because that’s too grudging. They know that for them, it is just better to be single. Full stop. It is who they authentically are.”
― Nicola Slawson,Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms

“I don’t remember ever doubting, when I was young, that I would one day get married, and have a house, and babies, just like my parents and all my friends’ parents, and just like all the main characters in the stories I read and watched.”
― Nicola Slawson,Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms

“It’s also good to look for the silver linings when it comes to our families too. For a long time, this thought of being a grown-up kid who hasn’t left her nuclear family made me feel kind of embarrassed and like I was doing things wrong. But over the last few years, I’ve realized how lucky I am. The time we get with our parents is finite and, thanks to my long-term singleness, I have got to spend a lot more time with them than I may otherwise have done.”
― Nicola Slawson,Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms

“But for the most part we wouldn’t have otherwise got to spend that extended time with them in our thirties. For me, it really was a blessing in disguise.”
― Nicola Slawson,Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms

“Even my texts are as dry as Death Valley”
― Frances Woodard,Strings of Fate

“You feel lonely and see it as a void, a painful emptiness that must be filled by another person. When a man appears, you push him into that void to stop the horrible feeling. This is the 'clinging.' It is a frantic attempt to use another person as insulation against yourself.

I felt that same void. But I learned to see it not as an absence, but as a space. An empty room. And I understood that my life's primary task was not to find someone to move into that room with me, but to furnish it myself.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“I love sleeping alone---always have.I love stretching out over the entire bed and making little sheet angels on the mattress.I don't need anyone hogging the covers or snoring.I feel sorry for all those poor souls who have to share their bed every night.”
― Freida McFadden,The Intruder