{"quotes":[{"text":"Think about it this way: 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.","author":"Mandy Hale","tags":["becoming","being-married","being-single","finding-yourself","loving-yourself","marriage","married","meant-to-be","not-settling","positive-thinking","single","single-life","single-woman","singleness","the-single-woman","woman","women"],"id":3006,"author_id":"Mandy+Hale"},{"text":"Think long and hard whether you have reached that mature stage of selflessness for this one you think you love so much. The love you enjoy will be the best thing that ever happened to you, but it will cost you your independence.... The responsibility of marriage and family demands time, and when we cheat on that, we rob ourselves of the investment returns.","author":"Ravi Zacharias","tags":["counting-the-cost","independence","marriage","selfishness","selflessness","singleness"],"id":21234,"author_id":"Ravi+Zacharias"},{"text":"If your relationship is draining your energy, making you lose yourself and taking your attention away from God, then you are not in a relationship but a cult. You are busy creating an idol (mini-God) for yourself.","author":"Kemi Sogunle","tags":["brokenness","dating","dating-relationships","heartbreak","life","life-and-living","life-lessons","lifestyle","love","loving-someone","marriage","relationship","singleness"],"id":33275,"author_id":"Kemi+Sogunle"},{"text":"A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.","author":"Mandy Hale","tags":["being-single","dating","goals","hard-to-get","holding-out-for-the-best","love","loving-yourself","not-settling","playing-hard-to-get","positive-thinking","relationships","single","single-life","single-woman","singleness","standards","the-single-woman","validation"],"id":34497,"author_id":"Mandy+Hale"},{"text":"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.","author":"Stephanie Clifford","tags":["dating","dating-advice","dating-tips","modern-relationships","modern-romance","relationship-advice","relationship-problems","single-life","single-woman","singleness"],"id":38255,"author_id":"Stephanie+Clifford"},{"text":"Single” is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.","author":"Mandy Hale","tags":["being-single","confidence","embracing-your-singleness","holding-out-for-the-best","independence","life","live-life-on-your-own-terms","living-in-the-moment","loving-yourself","no-apologies","not-settling","opportunity","positive-thinking","single","single-journey","single-life","single-woman","singleness","the-single-woman"],"id":45629,"author_id":"Mandy+Hale"},{"text":"One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.","author":"Elizabeth George","tags":["advantage","calling","christian","god","life","love","marriage","potential","single","singleness","work","young"],"id":65804,"author_id":"Elizabeth+George"},{"text":"I never feel alone realizing the fact that my life is my only life partner.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["alone","aloneness","fact","feel","life","life-partner","loneliness","only","realizing","single","single-life","single-woman","singleness"],"id":68758,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"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.","author":"Mandy Hale","tags":["being-single","destiny","dreams","faith","faith-in-yourself","finding-yourself","life","love","positive-thinking","sharing-your-life-with-someone","single","single-life","single-woman","singleness","the-single-woman","trust","walking-alone","your-journey"],"id":74911,"author_id":"Mandy+Hale"},{"text":"The question I’d long posed to myself—whether to be married or to be single—is a false binary. The space in which I’ve always wanted to live—indeed, where I have spend my adulthood—isn’t between those two poles, but beyond it. The choice between being married versus being single doesn’t even belong here in the twenty-first century.","author":"Kate Bolick","tags":["feminism","marriage","singleness"],"id":90331,"author_id":"Kate+Bolick"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":40,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}