Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.

Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it.

I do” to someone else.

Love is a beautiful, wonderful, and even sacred thing, but until it arrives, shouldn’t we give ourselves permission to thrive?

If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one...

Never stop trying. Never stop believing. Never give up. Your day will come.

A girl who truly knows herself is a girl everybody else wants to know

If something on the inside is telling you that someone isn’t right for you, they’re NOT right for you, no matter how great they might look on paper. When it’s right for you, you will...

Consider the fact that maybe…just maybe…beauty and worth aren’t found in a makeup bottle, or a salon-fresh hairstyle, or a fabulous outfit. Maybe our sparkle comes from somewhere deeper inside, somewhere so pure and authentic...

Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life…it’ll change yours.

Stand strong in your worth and don’t let anyone talk you out of it.

Here’s a glorious thought: You don’t have to settle. Ever. In life, in love, in your career…ANYWHERE!

We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.

Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place.

Happy is still Happy, with or without the Ever After.

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

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...

If there is a particular person in your life that is repeatedly choosing not to honor you and is causing you more sadness or pain than they are joy – it might be time to...

Don’t pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale.

Love shouldn’t require Windex to be clear. It either is or it isn’t.

Maybe it’s NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it.

Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you.

Happily Single is permission to CHOOSE your life rather than having it handed to you, and it’s living life on your own terms instead of those that are expected of you.

When you refuse to settle for less than the best…the best tends to track you down.

Change starts with YOU. When you step up, you invite others to step up, too.

If God closes a door AND a window, consider the fact that it might be time to build a whole new house.

So you’re a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!

The only keeper of your happiness is you. Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth and your attitude.

Single” is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.

You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them…but still move on without them.

Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone’s heart.

Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget.

Celebrate the people in your life who are there because they love you for no other reason than because you are YOU.

What we are waiting for is not as important as what happens to us while we are waiting. Trust the process.

So many people are so terrified to be alone that they settle for a loveless relationship or stay trapped in a miserable one for months and even years on end. But as it turns out,...

Anything in your life that’s acting as a security blanket is only smothering the person you were born to be.

The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be.

When God requires us to surrender one dream, it’s because He wants to hand us a bigger and better one.

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

Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, magical person that your are.

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.

It makes no sense to try to extend a friendship that was only meant to be a season into a lifetime.

Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE.

The wonderful, beautiful thing that happens when you rid yourself of the things that don’t see your worth? You make space in your life for all the glorious things you deserve.

You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.

Keep your head up, your faith strong, and your eyes open for the little miracles all around you…because they are there, just waiting to be discovered.

Happiness begins with you. Not with your relationship, your friends, or your job. but with you.

Don’t be afraid to be who you are, no matter who that person might be.

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.

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