#single

To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#leap-before-you-look #leap-of-faith #leaps #life #living-life

There is never a moment when God is not in control. Relax! He’s got you covered. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#faith-in-god #god #peace #positive-thinking #spirituality

The things we don’t stress tend to turn out best. Trust and let go. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#let-go #letting-go #not-stressing #peace #positive-thinking

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters. ↗

— Jane Austen

#classics #marriage #men #possessiveness #single-men

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#advice #broken-families #divorce #hope #kids

If you want your life to be a five-star reality, you have to stop settling for a fast food mentality! ↗

— Mandy Hale

#holding-out-for-the-best #living-your-best-life #not-settling #positive-thinking #refusing-to-settle

By nature independent, gay, even exuberant, seductively responsive and given to those spontaneous sallies that sparkle in the conversation of certain daughters of Paris who seem to have inhaled since childhood the pungent breath of the boulevards laden with the nightly laughter of audiences leaving theaters, Madame de Burne's five years of bondage had nonetheless endowed her with a singular timidity which mingled oddly with her youthful mettle, a great fear of saying too much, of going to far, along with a fierce yearning for emancipation and a firm resolve never again to compromise her freedom. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#fear #fierce #freedom #independent #paris

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friends #friendship #knowing-your-worth #love #not-settling

It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#drama #friends #friendship #holding-out-for-the-best #honoring-yourself

You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#evolve #friends #friendship #growth #letting-go