Quotes by Glennon Doyle Melton - Page 2

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.
Glennon Doyle Melton /
Wedding
Fancy
Finish Line
Disney
Finish
Quit
Trained
Weddings
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When I was detoxing from social media, I realized that I was thinking in status updates. It seemed I had trained my brain to translate everything I experienced throughout the day into 140 characters or less.
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Translate
Experienced
Status
Trained
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When 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.
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Chance
Curious
Listening
Understood
Grow People Way
Understand
Another
Being
Grow
Take
Defensive
Differ
Disarm
Human
Express
Human Being
Over
Seek
Opinions
Yours
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I am not, at the end of the day, a mother, a wife, a writer, an activist, a friend. I am a child of God. That's who I was when I came into this world and who I'll be when I leave it. No one can take that from me.
Glennon Doyle Melton /
Writer
God World Me
Friend
End Of The Day
Leave
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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.
Glennon Doyle Melton /
Jesus
Book
Broken
Hate
Mad
Precarious
Sand
Writing
Words
Time Me Words
Time Hate Me
Every Time
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We are - each and every one of us - unlearning misogyny. It's going to take some time. But be aware and active of your prejudices. Notice when they kick in and resist. Fight to stay soft and open. Step back and squint hard.
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Active
Time Fight Your
Notice
Prejudices
Step
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I just think that if we are going to call ourselves pro-life, we must also agree that starvation and poverty and disease and immigration and health care for all and war and peace and the environment are also pro-life issues.
Glennon Doyle Melton /
Agree
Disease
Environment
Health Care
Immigration
Poverty
Pro Life
Starvation
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I am not bound to spend my precious days on Earth trying to keep up with the Joneses - because the Joneses are really just a bunch of folks in conference rooms changing 'trends' rapidly to create fake monthly emergencies for us.
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Emergencies
Fake
Rooms
Conference
Monthly
Precious
Rapidly
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'Brave' is very specific and extremely personal. It can't be judged by people on the outside. Just can't. 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
Coward
Judged
Yourself
Very
Brave People Sometimes
Everyone
Yourself People Sometimes
Down
Else
Everyone Else
Extremely
Means
Letting
Outside
Personal
Specific
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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.
Glennon Doyle Melton /
Knowledge
Dying
Following
Form
Safe
Traditional
Your Dreams
Life Dreams Your
Full
Word
Meaning
Meaning Of
Regrets
Shape
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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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Cares
Expose
Showing
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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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Urgent
Valuable
Life Death Great
Attend
Great Thing
Ignore
Underlying
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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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Ashamed
Different Ways
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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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Marriage
Wedding
Babysitting
Party
Therapy
Budget
Buy
Invest
Simply
Marry
How Much
Young People
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Questions 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.
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Generic
Receiver
Gifts
Right Question
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Being a mother is a little like 'Groundhog's Day.' It's getting out of bed and doing the exact same things again and again and yet again - and it's watching it all get undone again and again and yet again. It's humbling, monotonous, mind-numbing, and solitary.
Glennon Doyle Melton /
Bed
Humbling
Monotonous
Mother
Solitary
Undone
Again
Same
Getting
Exact
Same Things
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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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Attempting
Criteria
Everest
Live Life
Similarity
Stage
Alongside
Life Age Live
Based
Choose
Climb
Learned
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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.
Glennon Doyle Melton /
Beach
Bottom
Crisis
Fall
Left
Lifts
Sand
Treasure
Watches
Avoid
Goes
Hoping
Rock
Sift
Wants
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We'll tell fear it can come along with us in our minivan, okay? But we'll just tell fear it can't drive. Sometimes we'll tell it to not even talk. Like when we tell our kids, 'Enough. No words.' We're going to play the quiet game with fear. Fear is not the boss of us.
Glennon Doyle Melton /
Boss
Okay
Quiet
Words
Talk
Drive
Game
No Words
Tell
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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.
Glennon Doyle Melton /
Being Afraid
Brave
Listening
Mean
Small Voice
Voice
Inside
Come
Time Believe World
Afraid
Anyway
Does
Doing
Still
Rest
Small
Over
Regardless
Saying
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The hardest part of living without social media was remembering that my little life was enough, so I could just stay there and live it without asking for anyone else's permission or validation. I realized that for me, posting is like asking the world, 'Do you 'like' me?'
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Permission
Validation
Hardest Part
Posting
Remembering
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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.
Glennon Doyle Melton /
Encouragement
Amazing
Morning
Attention
Infinite
Joy
Single
All Day
Amazing Thing
Away
Grab
Hoard
Monitor
Supply
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The truth is that cleaning up socks and trying to get someone to really listen to you is marriage. It's less sweep you off your feet and more sweep the kitchen four times a day. Like everything good in life, it's 98% back-breaking work and 2% moments that make the work worthwhile.
Glennon Doyle Melton /
Marriage
Cleaning
Feet
Moments
Truth Is
Worthwhile
Life Truth Work
Life Work Truth
Socks
Sweep
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It blows my mind when I actually consider that men are as human as I am. How can you possibly be as human and have all of the thoughts and feelings that I have and never be able to talk about it, ever? Guys are in desperate need of truth telling. They are in desperate need of a revolution.
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Desperate
Revolution
Blows
Consider
Guys
Possibly
Thoughts
Telling
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I know how I like my house. I like it cute and cozy and a little funky, and I like it to feel lived in and worn, and I like the things inside of it to work. That's all. And for me, it's fine that my house's interior suggests that I might not spend every waking moment thinking about how it looks.
Glennon Doyle Melton /
Cute
Cozy
Fine
Funky
House
Looks
Might
Thinking
Waking
Worn
Inside
Work Thinking Me
Work Moment Me
Spend
Interior
Moment
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Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline - and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.
Glennon Doyle Melton /
Comfort
Compassion
Convenience
Discipline
Habit
Important
Love Is
Perspective
Pity
Life Love Love Is
Anything
Anything Else
Does
Becomes
Choice
Else
Feeling
Happen
More Than Anything
Viewpoint
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We need to make friends with ourselves. We are stuck with our self all day, so let's be kinder, gentler, more amusing company. Let's take our own hand and say, 'There, there, sister. You're doing a good job. I'm proud of how you're handling all this craziness down here. Don't give up. Carry on, warrior.'
Glennon Doyle Melton /
Friends
Sister
Amusing
Company
Craziness
Good Job
Proud
Self
Stuck
Warrior
Job
All Day
Good Day Doing
Own
Doing
Carry
Take
Day
Down
Say
Give
Hand
Handling
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You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong - but you are now a different shape, a different size.
Glennon Doyle Melton /
Different
One Day
Shattered
Size
Strong
Together
Wake Up
Whole
Yourself
Time Together Day
Now
Then
Time Yourself Day
Back
Day
Finally
Happen
Over
Put
Piece
Realize
Shape
Wake
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Christianity asserts that God made himself human. Those are two different categories - two different levels of worthiness. God is one category, and human is another. That's a downgrade. After that jump, there are no more categories - no more downgrades. There are no human levels of worthiness. There is no hierarchy in God's eyes.
Glennon Doyle Melton /
Categories
Christianity
Different Levels
Hierarchy
Levels
Worthiness
Downgrade
Eyes
Jump
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I think of love and marriage in the same way I do plants: We have perennials and annuals. The perennial plant blooms, goes away, and comes back. The annual blooms for just a season, and then winter arrives and takes it out for good. But it's still enriched the soil for the next flower to bloom. In the same way, no love is wasted.
Glennon Doyle Melton /
Marriage
Flower
Love Is
Next
No Love
Plant
Soil
Winter
Love Good Marriage
Then
Annual
Away
Back
Bloom
Same
Enriched
Still
Goes
Wasted
Perennial
Season
Takes
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We all have this misunderstanding about heartbreak, which is we think we should avoid it. But what I think is that heartache is a clue toward the work we're supposed to be doing in the world. What breaks each person's heart is different - be it racial injustice, war, or animals. And when you figure out what it is that breaks yours, go toward it.
Glennon Doyle Melton /
War
Clue
Different
Heart
Injustice
Misunderstanding
Should
World
Person
Go
Animals
Avoid
Doing
Breaks
War Work World
Each
Figure
Racial
Supposed
Toward
Which
Yours
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