52 Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes for You to Enjoy

Glennon Doyle Melton

American Author

Born: Mar 20, 1976

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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

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. Glennon Doyle Melton

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

Time Day You Together Yourself Strong Wake Up Back Finally One Day Shape Put Over Piece Shattered Wake Up Different Size Happen Realize Then Whole Now Differently

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

Love Good Winter Marriage Love Is Plant Plants Soil Think Flower Back Enriched Way Out No Love Perennial Takes Annual Still Bloom Blooms Same Goes Just Then Next Season Away Wasted

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

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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

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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

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I 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 Doyle Melton

Broken World Feeling Think Longer Mess Messy Person Just Deeply

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

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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

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Parenting is the most important thing to many of us, and so it's also the place we're most vulnerable. We're all a little afraid we're doing it wrong. Glennon Doyle Melton

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If you're not okay, you might as well not pretend you are, especially since life has a way of holding us down until we utter that magic word: help! That's when angels rush to your side. Glennon Doyle Melton

Life is not safe, and so our task is not to promise our kids there will be no turbulence. It's to assure them that when the turbulence comes, we will all hold hands and get through it together. Glennon Doyle Melton

Life Together Will Assure Our Kids Promise Through Safe Task Get Hands Hold Turbulence Them

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

Fall Everyone Sift Crisis Hoping Beach Bottom Lifts Over Like Does Rock Left Up Child Goes Literally Wants Sand Means Avoid Who Away Treasure Watches

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. Glennon Doyle Melton

Suffering Try Mandatory Pain Over Optional Happens Us Teaches Skip

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. Glennon Doyle Melton

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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

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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. Glennon Doyle Melton

The Internet has become my enabler. It keeps me from stillness and discomfort, and this keeps me from growing. Glennon Doyle Melton

Me Stillness Internet Become Discomfort Growing Keeps

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

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