I hated writing ‘Love Warrior.’ It’s the hardest thing I’ve every written. I cried.
GLENNON DOYLEI hated writing ‘Love Warrior.’ It’s the hardest thing I’ve every written. I cried.
GLENNON DOYLEI’ve never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.
GLENNON DOYLEYou do not have to agree with me to love me.
GLENNON DOYLEOver 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 DOYLEIf 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 DOYLELife is a conversation. Make it a good one.
GLENNON DOYLEThe closer you get to people who are different than you, the more you learn that we’re all same.
GLENNON DOYLEThe 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.
GLENNON DOYLEI 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.
GLENNON DOYLEWhen we shrug and say we don’t care, it’s usually a lie. Every girl cares. We’ve just been taught not to expose ourselves by showing it. What the world needs now is girls and women who aren’t afraid to care – who are done saying, ‘Whatever.’
GLENNON DOYLEDo not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you’ve offered today.
GLENNON DOYLEI 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.
GLENNON DOYLEPain 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.
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 DOYLEA 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.
GLENNON DOYLEI 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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