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Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you’ve offered today.

Glennon Doyle

Sometimes when you love someone like a mother loves her child, that love can turn into fear. It happens to me all the time. I am so afraid that the world will not be kind to my children.
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Children Fear Kind Love Mom Myself World Yourself
My greatest fear is that I’ll fail my kids.
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Children Failure Fear Greatness Myself
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
Many of us spend the first part of our adult lives becoming – stepping into the roles we take on so that they come to define our lives. But I’ve learned that we don’t really grow up until we unbecome.
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Growth Live Ourselves Role Wisdom
I’ve seen my name on marquees and bowed to standing ovations. I’ve also been called a fraud, a mental case, a heretic. People all over the country wait in line to hug me or curse me.
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Abuse Country Mental Myself People See Wait
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
We are all trained by Disney to believe that the wedding is the finish line, but the wedding is just another starting line. In light of this fact, we should quit the huge, fancy, debt-inducing weddings.
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Believe Line Marriage Money Quit Start Training
When folks decide they love any institution more than the individual souls inside them, they’re missing the mark.
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Decision Love Missing People Soul
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
You do not have to agree with me to love me.
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Agreement Love Myself Relationship Yourself
We can be shiny and perfect and admired, or we can be real and honest and vulnerable and loved. But we actually do have to choose.
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Honesty Love Perfection Reality Vulnerable
I’ve never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.
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Believe Love Myself Romantic
Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.
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Goodness Inspirational Life
Being a mother is a little like ‘Groundhog’s Day.’ It’s getting out of bed and doing the exact same things again and again and yet again – and it’s watching it all get undone again and again and yet again. It’s humbling, monotonous, mind-numbing, and solitary.
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Bed Humble Mom Solitude Time
Rock bottom is a crisis. And everyone wants to avoid crisis. But what ‘crisis’ means literally is ‘to sift’ – like a child who goes to the beach, lifts up the sand, and watches all the sand fall away, hoping that there’s treasure left over. That’s what crisis does.
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Avoid Children Fall Growth Hard Time Hope Misery
I’m not big on faith rules, but if I had to choose one, it would be that every person must choose a faith issue upon which to hang her hat that requires her to change – not somebody else.
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Change Choice Faith Myself Person Rule

Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you’ve offered today.

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