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The Internet has become my enabler. It keeps me from stillness and discomfort, and this keeps me from growing.

Glennon Doyle

I ask only child-free pals for parenting advice because they’re the only ones sane and well-rested enough to have any real insight.
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Advice Children Enough Myself Parents Reality
I’m nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.
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Be Yourself Instagram Captions
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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Human Quiet Success Voice Woman
It makes no sense to me that my gay friends cannot get married to each other because a certain slice of Christianity doesn’t believe in gay marriage.
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Believe Friendship Marriage Myself Oppression Religion
The fact that we define ourselves by our roles can be an admirable thing – it’s how we build a life and make a living. But it’s also precarious. Roles change. Sometimes overnight.
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Change Life Live Night Ourselves Role
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
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
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
Making sensible family rules around cell phones and driving is a way to love yourself, your marriage, your children, and the world well.
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Children Family Love Marriage Phone Rule World Yourself
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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Feeling Love Marriage Yourself
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
My greatest fear is that I’ll fail my kids.
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Children Failure Fear Greatness Myself
I think that in order to parent effectively, we are going to have to admit two things: We can’t keep our children safe. We can’t accept the fact that we can’t keep our children safe.
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Acceptance Children Myself Ourselves Parents Safety Thinking
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
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

The Internet has become my enabler. It keeps me from stillness and discomfort, and this keeps me from growing.

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