53 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

Nothing separates a woman or a family from God's love. Not death, and certainly not divorce. Glennon Doyle Melton

Love Death God Family Woman Nothing Divorce Separates Certainly

Integrity means there is not a real-life you and an internet you. The two are one and the same. If you're not kind on the Internet, you're not kind. Glennon Doyle Melton

You Integrity Internet Kind Same Means Two

Many of us spend the first part of our adult lives becoming - stepping into the roles we take on so that they come to define our lives. But I've learned that we don't really grow up until we unbecome. Glennon Doyle Melton

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 Melton

Life Change Sometimes Build Living Our Define Ourselves Admirable Fact Also Make How Overnight Precarious Roles Thing

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one. Glennon Doyle Melton

Life Good Conversation Life Is A Make

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

Success Love Day Morning Joy Grace Amazing Single Encouragement Every Others All Day About Give Never Supply Attention New Amazing Thing Grab Get Infinite Hoard Away Ever Thing Things Monitor

'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. Glennon Doyle Melton

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. Glennon Doyle Melton

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

Light Finish Line Believe Finish Wedding Weddings Fact Another Line Huge Trained Quit Just Fancy Should Disney Starting

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?' Glennon Doyle Melton

Life Me You World Social Media Live Living Enough Else Validation Stay Posting Could Part Remembering Like Without Permission Just Anyone Little Social Realized Asking Media Hardest Hardest Part

Sometimes when you love someone like a mother loves her child, that love can turn into fear. It happens to me all the time. I am so afraid that the world will not be kind to my children. Glennon Doyle Melton

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. Glennon Doyle Melton

Day Social Media Thinking Everything Characters Status Seemed Throughout Had Brain Trained Experienced Social Translate Realized Less Media

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. Glennon Doyle Melton

Myself Needs Birthday Me Too Much Lost Too Enough Others Way Like Parties Felt Diapers Much Landslide Full-Time Nearly

I can't even carpe 15 minutes in a row. So a whole diem is out of the question. Glennon Doyle Melton

Out Minutes Question Whole Even Row

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

It makes no sense to me that my gay friends cannot get married to each other because a certain slice of Christianity doesn't believe in gay marriage. Glennon Doyle Melton

Me Gay Marriage Sense Believe Christianity Other Gay Marriage Slice Married No Sense Because Makes Friends Get Get Married Cannot Certain Each

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. Glennon Doyle Melton

Life Age Live Life Dangerous Own Stage Live Others Our Those Criteria Similarity Attempting Wrong Alongside Like Learned Without Climb Were Friends Trying Little Used Choose Based Everest

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

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. Glennon Doyle Melton

Girl Big Become Small Voice Contradiction Quiet Successful Inherent Humans

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? Glennon Doyle Melton

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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

Making sensible family rules around cell phones and driving is a way to love yourself, your marriage, your children, and the world well. Glennon Doyle Melton

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