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When folks decide they love any institution more than the individual souls inside them, they’re missing the mark.

Glennon Doyle

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
A safe life includes following your dreams with the full knowledge that doing so is not, in any way, shape or form, safe in the traditional meaning of the word. Because living safely means dying without too many regrets. That is safe.
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Death Dream Knowledge Live Regret Safety
The Internet is neither good nor bad. It’s neutral – it becomes for each of us exactly what we bring to it.
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Bad Choice Goodness Internet
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
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 nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.
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Be Yourself Instagram Captions
The Internet has become my enabler. It keeps me from stillness and discomfort, and this keeps me from growing.
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Comfortable Growth Internet Myself
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
The 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.
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Attention Encouragement Grace Growth Love Morning Success
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
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
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
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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Death Greatness Ignorance Life Love Need People Thinking Value Word
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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Book Hate Heart Broken Mad Myself Time Writing
It is suggested to us a million times a day that our bodies are projects. They aren’t. Our lives are. Our spirituality is. Our relationships are. Our work is.
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Body Live Ourselves Relationship Spirituality Time
Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.
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Goodness Inspirational Life

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