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My greatest fear is that I’ll fail my kids.

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
We can be shiny and perfect and admired, or we can be real and honest and vulnerable and loved. But we actually do have to choose.
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Honesty Love Perfection Reality Vulnerable
One of the reasons we stay so alone in our lives is because we’re ashamed to talk about the hard stuff. It’s as simple as that. We’re all in pain in different ways, and we don’t get the help we need because we’re too ashamed to talk about the pain.
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Alone Different Lives Oneself Pain Reason Shame Simplicity Stay Way
I hated writing ‘Love Warrior.’ It’s the hardest thing I’ve every written. I cried.
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Hard Hate Love Myself Tears Warrior Writing
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
My greatest fear is that I’ll fail my kids.
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Children Failure Fear Greatness Myself
Brave’ is very specific and extremely personal. Sometimes brave means letting everyone else think you’re a coward. Sometimes brave is letting everyone else down but yourself.
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Brave Deep Thinking Wisdom Yourself
Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.
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Goodness Inspirational Life
Making sensible family rules around cell phones and driving is a way to love yourself, your marriage, your children, and the world well.
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Children Family Love Marriage Phone Rule World Yourself
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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Enough Establishment Lost Mom Myself Pain Time
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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Children Home Mom Myself Parents World Yourself
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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Herself Story Woman Yourself
I believe in people because I believe in God. I think God knew what God was doing when God made each of us.
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Believe God Myself People Spiritual
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
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.
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Believe Listening Myself Thinking Time Voice World
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

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