Top 100 Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes
#1. These things don't fill me completely, but they remind me that it is not my job to fill myself. It's just my job to notice my emptiness and find graceful ways to live as a broken, unfilled human - and maybe to help myself and others feel a teeny bit better.
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#2. Speaking of messy, I recently quit parenting. I do not parent in August. August parenting is not a good look for me. It's hotter than hell, and the children and I have already had a whole lot of togetherness.
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#3. We talked about how impossible it is to read minds and hearts and what a relief it is to hear what the person you love needs and learn how to give it.
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#4. Grief and pain are like joy and peace; they are not things we should try to snatch from each other. They're sacred.
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#5. Because love is not something for which to search or wait or hope or dream. Its simply something to do.
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#6. Maybe instead of slamming the door on pain, I need to throw open the door wide and say, Come in. Sitd down with me. And don't leave until you have taught me what I need to know.
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#7. It strikes me that I need to throw out the dictionary the world gave me about what it means to be a mother, a wife, a person of faith, an artist, and a woman and write my own.
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#10. Grief is love's souvenir. It's our proof that we once loved. Grief is the receipt we wave in the air that says to the world: Look! Love was once mine. I love well. Here is my proof that I paid the price.
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#11. I know my name now. Love Warrior. I came from Love and I am Love and I will return to Love. Love casts out fear. A woman who has recovered her true identity as a Love Warrior is the most powerful force on earth. All the darkness and shame and pain in the world can't defeat her.
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#14. When you write your truth, it is a love offering to the world because it helps us feel braver and less alone.
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#15. sometimes we get confused and believe that our gift must bring us money or success or fame.
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#16. Mutual surrender, maybe that's an act of love. Surrendering to this thing that's bigger than we are: this love, this pain. The courage to surrender comes from knowing that the love and pain will almost kill us, but not quite.
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#17. If we empty our hearts every night, they won't get too heavy or cluttered. Our hearts will stay light and open with lots of room for good new things to come.
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#18. Be critical, fine, that's fair. But don't be cruel. Every damn one of us knows the difference.
If you are not kind on the internet, then you're not kind.
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#19. Peace isnt the absence of distraction or annoyance or pain. Its finding Me, finding peace and calm, in the midst of those distractions and annoyances and pains.
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#20. The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.
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#21. Women who are concerned with being pretty think about what they look like, but women who are concerned with being beautiful think about what they are looking at. They are taking it all in. They are taking in the whole beautiful world and making all that beauty theirs to give away to others.
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#22. But the paradox of pain is that it is only universal in retrospect. In the present, it is fiercely personal.
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#23. If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, Chase, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.
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#24. You have to be known to be loved, and none of these waving people knows me.
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#25. I consider the possibility that I've been right and wrong my whole life. I was right to want to be beautiful and sexy; I was just wrong to have accepted someone else's idea of what those words mean.
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#26. It strikes me that it's always religious people who are most surprised by grace.
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#27. Since the day I decided to become sober and a mother, I've been trying to become who I am supposed to be.
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#30. Here's my hunch: nobody's secure, and nobody feels like she completely belongs. Those insecurities are just job hazards of being human. But some people dance anyway, and those people have more fun.
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#31. Grief is nothing but a painful waiting, a horrible patience. Grief cannot be torn down or scaled or overcome or outsmarted. It can only be outlasted. Survival is surrender to the brick wall. There
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#32. Thought a lot about how beautiful and powerful courage and faith are when they are found together.
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#33. Learning how to gracefully accept criticism and compliments is hard, but I'm trying.
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#34. Most of the magic in my life has happened after my heart has been shattered.
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#35. Loving people and animals makes us stronger in the right ways and weaker in the right ways. Even if animals and people leave, even if they die, they leave us better. So we keep loving, even though we might lose, because loving teaches us and changes us.
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#36. No woman on earth doesn't give a fuck - no woman is that cool - she's just hidden her fire. Likely, it's burning her up.
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#37. If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you're good enough. Just do it. Be generous. Offer a gift to the world that no one else can offer: yourself.
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#38. Holes are good for making friends, and friends are the best fillers I've found yet. Maybe because other people are the closest we get to God on this side. So when we use them to find God in each other, we become holy.
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#40. So what is it in a human life that creates bravery, kindness, wisdom, and reilience? What if it's pain? What if it's the struggle?
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#41. Persevere. Bear with great patience each other's infirmities of body or behavior. And when the thorns of contention arise, daily forgive, and be ready to accept forgiveness.
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#43. People who are hurting don't need Avoiders, Protectors, or Fixers. What we need are patient, loving witness. People to sit quietly and hold space for us. People to stand in helpful vigil to our pain.
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#45. His forgetfulness feels like carelessness, and his carelessness feels like rejection.
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#47. She pauses and then says: "Maybe, for now, the only right decision is to stop making decisions.
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#49. Recovery is an unbecoming. My healing has been a peeling away of costume after cstume until here I am, still and naked before God, stripped down to my real identity.
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#51. That's how you can tell that you're filling yourself with the wrong things. You use a lot of energy, and in the end, you feel emptier and less comfortable than ever.
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#56. People always seem quite shocked by the cruelty that's happening in America's schools. I'm baffled by their shock, and I'm concerned about what's not being addressed in their proposed solutions.
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#57. Addiction is just a little hiding place where sensitive people can go so we don't have to be touched by love or pain.
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#58. I have decided that I'm ready to stop destroying myself and start creating. I have already accepted my invitation and no one will convince me again that I'm not worthy. Not ever again. I have been invited and I have said Yes. My Yes is final.
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#60. My daughter and I pay attention. We know what the world wants from us. We know we must decide whether to stay small, quiet, and uncomplicated or allow ourselves to grow as big, loud, and complex as we were made to be. Every girl must decide whether to be true to herself or true to the world.
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#61. I don't want to take anything to the grave. I want to die used up and emptied out. I don't want to carry around anything that I don't have to. I want to travel light.
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#62. that we are just scattered pieces of the same puzzle, so when we hurt each other, we hurt ourselves.
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#63. I wonder if the priest knows that while he's up here charging for forgiveness, Mary's back there handing it out for free.
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#68. The messiest parts of our lives are also the most beautiful parts of our lives.
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#69. I don't think kids are any crueler than adults. I just think kids are less adept at disguising their cruelty.
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#70. Maybe my reliance on numbing is keeping me from the two things I was born for: learning and loving. I could go on hitting easy buttons until I die and feel no pain, but the cost of that decision could be that I'll never learn, love, or be truly alive.
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#72. Who else but a sibling travels with you from the start of life's path to the bitter end?
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#73. Since brokenness is the way of folks, the only way to live peacefully is to forgive everyone constantly, including yourself.
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#75. Please, no. Let's stay here with our precious cups and drink safely alone. Everything is perfect. Why must you always ruin drinking by adding scary people and things?
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#76. My courage will come from knowing I can handle whatever I encounter there -- because I was designed by my creator to not only survive pain and love but also to become whole inside it. I was born to do this. I am a Warrior.
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#78. She is trying to be brave, but no one knows what brave looks like inside this particular moment.
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#79. We think our job as humans is to avoid pain, our job as parents is to protect our children from pain, and our job as friends is to fix each other's pain. Maybe that's why we all feel like failures so often - because we all have the wrong job description for love.
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#81. I have accepted another one of life's dangerous invitations: the invitation to feel. My
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#84. I think God puts people in our lives as gifts to us. The children in your class this year, they are some of God's gifts to you. So please treat each one like a gift from God. Every single one.
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#85. God deals only with truth and the truth will set you free, but it will hurt so badly first. Sobering up will be like walking toward my own crucifixion.
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#86. But I drink differently than they do. They drink to take the edge off. I drink to disappear.
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#88. I'm not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say, 'For the same reason I laugh so often--because I'm paying attention.' I tell them that we can choose to be perfect and admired or to be real and loved. We must decide.
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#90. What my friends didn't know about me and I didn't know about Amma is that people who are hurting don't need Avoiders, Protectors, or Fixers. What we need are patient, loving witnesses. People to sit quietly and hold space for us. People to stand in helpless vigil to our pain.
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#91. Our story is the only thing we have that is completely our own. A person who steals it and uses it to entertain is the worst kind of thief. Then
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#92. I've only begun the work that needs to be done here. Not yet, the voice says. Not yet. See this through. Unbecome, Glennon. Unbecome until you uncover who you really are.
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#93. They wanted to adore me and I complicated things by inserting myself into their experience of me. I
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#95. Now I wonder, is love not a feeling but a place between two present people? A sacred place created when two people decide it's safe enough to let their real selves surface and touch each other? Is that why it's called in love? Because you have to visit there?
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#96. Being human in a world with no tolerance for humanity felt like a setup, a game I couldn't win. But instead of understanding that there might be something wrong with the world, I decided there was something wrong with me.
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#97. Maybe there is no way for love to fail, because the eventual result of all love is New Life.
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#98. I'm trying to strip myself down to my barest essentials so I can figure out where I begin and where the woman the world told me to be begins. I'm going back to the starting line.
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#99. I'm not big on advice, mainly because most days I learn what an idiot I was yesterday.
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#100. If I want to know: Is there anyone on earth who won't betray me? I must answer myself: Yes. Look in the mirror. She won't betray you. So
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