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The 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 Doyle

The closer you get to people who are different than you, the more you learn that we’re all same.
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Different Learning People Yourself
When 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.’
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Afraid Care Girl Lie Need Ourselves Women World
I’m nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.
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Be Yourself Instagram Captions
We’re told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There’s an inherent contradiction.
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Human Quiet Success Voice Woman
Love is kind, right? It’s not about calling someone out on every little thing you feel.
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Feeling Kind Love Right Yourself
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
When in doubt, I choose love above any particular ideas offered to me about faith.
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Choice Doubt Faith Ideas Love Myself
My greatest fear is that I’ll fail my kids.
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Children Failure Fear Greatness Myself
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
Young people: marry simply, start your life, and party later. Think of how much babysitting for your future colicky baby you could buy with that wedding budget. Think of how much marriage therapy you could buy. Invest in your marriage, not your wedding.
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Investment Life Marriage Money People Simplicity Start Therapy Thinking Young Yourself
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
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
We 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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Believe Line Marriage Money Quit Start Training
Sometimes the rewards of risk don’t leave us wrecked. Sometimes we find our passion, our purpose, courage, connection, and comfort. Every good thing in our lives is a direct result of risk.
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Comfortable Connection Courage Goodness Leaving Life Ourselves Passion Purpose Result Reward Risk
I used to choose friends based on similarity in age and life stage, but I’ve learned that those were the wrong criteria. Trying to live life exclusively alongside others our own age is like attempting to climb Mt. Everest without a Sherpa. It’s a little dangerous.
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Age Dangerous Friendship Life Live Myself Wrong
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 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.

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The 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.

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