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.
GLENNON DOYLEThe closer you get to people who are different than you, the more you learn that we’re all same.
More Glennon Doyle Quotes
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I don’t think that I’m broken at all. I no longer think that I’m a mess. I just think I’m a deeply feeling person in a messy world.
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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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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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To me, full-time mothering felt like way too much and yet not nearly enough. Lost in a landslide of diapers, birthday parties, and others’ needs, I ached to reestablish myself.
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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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I’m nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.
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I wrote in my first book that I was broken, and now it just makes me mad every time. This is why writing words in books is so precarious. This is why Jesus only wrote in the sand, right? I just – I hate that I wrote that.
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I hated writing ‘Love Warrior.’ It’s the hardest thing I’ve every written. I cried.
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Often, we need to ignore the words people say and attend to their underlying, urgent, life or death questions: Am I valuable? Am I loved? The great thing is that the answer is easy: Yes! The answer is always yes. We don’t have to think too hard.
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You do not have to agree with me to love me.
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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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I realized I didn’t just want to parent children in my own little home but to mother the whole world. What’s the point of gaining influence if you’re not going to use it?
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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.
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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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I snap at people I love all the time, and that makes me feel bad about myself. I want to be Zen. I am so not Zen. Whatever Zen is, I’m the opposite of it.
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