I’m nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.
GLENNON DOYLEI’m nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.
GLENNON DOYLEYou do not have to agree with me to love me.
GLENNON DOYLEI 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?
GLENNON DOYLELove is kind, right? It’s not about calling someone out on every little thing you feel.
GLENNON DOYLEHabits 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.
GLENNON DOYLEWhen people express opinions that differ from yours, take it as a chance to grow. Seek to understand over being understood. Be curious, not defensive. The only way to disarm another human being is by listening.
GLENNON DOYLEThe Internet has become my enabler. It keeps me from stillness and discomfort, and this keeps me from growing.
GLENNON DOYLEThe amazing thing about love and attention and encouragement and grace and success and joy is that these things are infinite. We get a new supply every single morning, and so we can give it away all day. We never, ever have to monitor the supply of others or grab or hoard.
GLENNON DOYLEParenting 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.
GLENNON DOYLEIt 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.
GLENNON DOYLEQuestions are like gifts – it’s the thought behind them that the receiver really feels. We have to know the receiver to give the right gift and to ask the right question. Generic gifts and questions are all right, but personal gifts and questions feel better.
GLENNON DOYLEMy greatest fear is that I’ll fail my kids.
GLENNON DOYLEYour 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 DOYLEIf 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.
GLENNON DOYLEI’ve never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.
GLENNON DOYLEWe 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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