Top 100 Glennon Melton Quotes
#1. She pauses and then says: "Maybe, for now, the only right decision is to stop making decisions.
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#2. 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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#3. 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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#8. 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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#10. 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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#12. Quit trying to become a better parent and decided to try becoming a better person.
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#13. I don't believe in advice. Everybody has the answers right inside her, since we're all made up of the same amount of God. So when a friend says, I need some advice, I switch it to, I need some love, and I try to offer that.
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#14. 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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#16. His forgetfulness feels like carelessness, and his carelessness feels like rejection.
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#17. That's the thing about parenting: anxious if you do, anxious if you don't.
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#19. 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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#21. 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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#22. We either allow ourselves to feel the burn of our own pain or someone we love gets burned by it.
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#23. 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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#25. People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don't need help.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#30. Since brokenness is the way of folks, the only way to live peacefully is to forgive everyone constantly, including yourself.
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#31. Who else but a sibling travels with you from the start of life's path to the bitter end?
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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. The messiest parts of our lives are also the most beautiful parts of our lives.
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#38. He is human. I hadn't wanted him to be human. I had wanted him to be perfect and golden - steady and solid, simple and strong - so that I could be messy, complicated, and weak. But we are each all of those things.
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#39. 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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#41. 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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#42. A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.
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#43. that we are just scattered pieces of the same puzzle, so when we hurt each other, we hurt ourselves.
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#44. I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don't have to hide it and I don't have to fix it. I'm not broken.
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#45. 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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#46. You are not a mess. You are a feely person in a messy world.
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#47. When they speak to you from their fear
speak past their fear and directly to their love. Their Love will step forward eventually.
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#48. 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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#50. I am confident because I believe that I am a child of God. I am humble because I believe that everyone else is too.
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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. I'm not killing myself, I think as I open the door. I'm just not doing what's required to live. There has to be a difference. I
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#56. 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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#57. To arrive inside the moment in which you are supposed to feel more connected than at any other moment of your life and still feel lonely is utterly terrifying. It is the most lonely you can possibly feel. I
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#58. 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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#59. sometimes we get confused and believe that our gift must bring us money or success or fame.
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#60. 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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#61. I'm stuck in anxiety quicksand: The harder I try to climb my way out, the lower I sink.
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#64. I promised myself it would all be okay if I followed three simple rules: Show Up, Be Brave, and Be Kind. No
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#65. 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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#68. 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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#69. There are only two lives we might live: our dream or our destiny. Sometimes they are one in the same, and sometimes they're not. Often our dreams are just a path to our destinies.
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#70. 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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#71. Because love is not something for which to search or wait or hope or dream. Its simply something to do.
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#72. I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.
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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. 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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#77. I understand that you can love someone so much it aches and still hurt them, again and again. I know that you can love and betray the very same person.
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#78. 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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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. Most of the magic in my life has happened after my heart has been shattered.
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#82. Learning how to gracefully accept criticism and compliments is hard, but I'm trying.
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#83. Thought a lot about how beautiful and powerful courage and faith are when they are found together.
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#84. The one closest to the departed has to be the first one to step from despair to hope. Nobody else is allowed to jump ahead and shove open the door. That's the rule.
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#85. 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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#86. Marketers need us to believe that our pain is a mistake that can be solved with their product.
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#87. 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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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. It strikes me that it's always religious people who are most surprised by grace.
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#92. 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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#94. You have to be known to be loved, and none of these waving people knows me.
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#95. When reentering society and risking rejection, the library is a good place to start. They have low expectations. I love the library. Also church. Both have to take you in.
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#96. 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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#97. But the paradox of pain is that it is only universal in retrospect. In the present, it is fiercely personal.
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#98. Each day, we're making sandcastles I know will be washed away. I long for something solid, lasting, strong between us.
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#99. I think when your heart hurts this much it means you opened it wide once- and that is something to be proud of.
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#100. 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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