black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Glennon Doyle

Your body is not your art – it’s your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant.
GLENNON DOYLE

Art Body Creation Inspirational Perspective Yourself
Making sensible family rules around cell phones and driving is a way to love yourself, your marriage, your children, and the world well.
GLENNON DOYLE

Children Family Love Marriage Phone Rule World Yourself
I hated writing ‘Love Warrior.’ It’s the hardest thing I’ve every written. I cried.
GLENNON DOYLE

Hard Hate Love Myself Tears Warrior Writing
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.
GLENNON DOYLE

Book Hate Heart Broken Mad Myself Time Writing
Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you’ve offered today.
GLENNON DOYLE

Feeling Love Marriage Yourself
When in doubt, I choose love above any particular ideas offered to me about faith.
GLENNON DOYLE

Choice Doubt Faith Ideas Love Myself
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.
GLENNON DOYLE

Change Choice Faith Myself Person Rule
When I was detoxing from social media, I realized that I was thinking in status updates. It seemed I had trained my brain to translate everything I experienced throughout the day into 140 characters or less.
GLENNON DOYLE

Character Myself Social Media Technology Thinking Training
The most important thing on Earth is for all of us to make this sentence true: Compassion is what people do.
GLENNON DOYLE

Compassion Important People True
The Internet has become my enabler. It keeps me from stillness and discomfort, and this keeps me from growing.
GLENNON DOYLE

Comfortable Growth Internet Myself
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.
GLENNON DOYLE

Advice Children Enough Myself Parents Reality
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.
GLENNON DOYLE

Herself Story Woman Yourself
The hardest part of living without social media was remembering that my little life was enough, so I could just stay there and live it without asking for anyone else’s permission or validation. I realized that for me, posting is like asking the world, ‘Do you ‘like’ me?’
GLENNON DOYLE

Hard Time Live Remember Social Media World
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.
GLENNON DOYLE

Believe Listening Myself Thinking Time Voice World
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.
GLENNON DOYLE

Angel Help Hold On Life Magic Yourself
One day we will finally see that when we reject any person or group of people, we reject a part of our very selves. All are one. All are in. All are God’s beloved children with a place at the table.
GLENNON DOYLE

Children God Oneself Ourselves Person Philosophy Place Spiritual

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Glennon Doyle Quotes