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We’re told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There’s an inherent contradiction.

Glennon Doyle

Pain is mandatory for all of us. It’s what teaches us. Suffering is what’s optional. That’s what happens when we try to skip over the pain.
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Deep Pain Suffering Teaching Wisdom
If we are going to ask for our daily bread, we’ve got to take the time to receive it and eat it. God provide, but we’ve got to slow down long enough to taste and see.
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Enough Food God Ourselves See Taste Time
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 I don’t have to. I want to travel light.
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Carry Death Empty Light Myself Travel
Sometimes the rewards of risk don’t leave us wrecked. Sometimes we find our passion, our purpose, courage, connection, and comfort. Every good thing in our lives is a direct result of risk.
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Comfortable Connection Courage Goodness Leaving Life Ourselves Passion Purpose Result Reward Risk
Parenting is the most important thing to many of us, and so it’s also the place we’re most vulnerable. We’re all a little afraid we’re doing it wrong.
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Afraid Important Parents Place Vulnerable Wrong
If no pain, then no love. If no darkness, no light. If no risk, then no reward. It’s all or nothing. In this damn world, it’s all or nothing.
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Darkness Light Love Pain Reward Risk World
When in doubt, I choose love above any particular ideas offered to me about faith.
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Choice Doubt Faith Ideas Love Myself
I used to choose friends based on similarity in age and life stage, but I’ve learned that those were the wrong criteria. Trying to live life exclusively alongside others our own age is like attempting to climb Mt. Everest without a Sherpa. It’s a little dangerous.
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Age Dangerous Friendship Life Live Myself Wrong
I know how I like my house. I like it cute and cozy and a little funky, and I like it to feel lived in and worn, and I like the things inside of it to work. That’s all. And for me, it’s fine that my house’s interior suggests that I might not spend every waking moment thinking about how it looks.
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Appearance Feeling Home Moments Myself Thinking Wake Up
The Internet has become my enabler. It keeps me from stillness and discomfort, and this keeps me from growing.
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Comfortable Growth Internet Myself
If you ask a woman who she is, she’ll tell you who she serves and sometimes what she does. But that isn’t the whole story.
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Herself Story Woman Yourself
Habits are learned. And children learn their habits by watching what we do, not by listening to what we say. So we have to stop talking and teaching and preaching and just go do.
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Habit Learning Ourselves Stop Talk
You do not have to agree with me to love me.
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Agreement Love Myself Relationship Yourself
If you’re not okay, you might as well not pretend you are, especially since life has a way of holding us down until we utter that magic word: help! That’s when angels rush to your side.
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Angel Help Hold On Life Magic Yourself
Over time, I have come to believe that ‘brave’ does not mean what we think it does. It does not mean ‘being afraid and doing it anyway.’ Nope. Brave means listening to the still small voice inside and doing as it says. Regardless of what the rest of the world is saying.
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Believe Listening Myself Thinking Time Voice World
I believe in people because I believe in God. I think God knew what God was doing when God made each of us.
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Believe God Myself People Spiritual

We’re told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There’s an inherent contradiction.

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We’re told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There’s an inherent contradiction.

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