American - Author | March 20, 1976 -
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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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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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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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.
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Nothing separates a woman or a family from God's love. Not death, and certainly not divorce.
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I ask only child-free pals for parenting advice because they're the only ones sane and well-rested enough to have any real insight.
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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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Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.
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I've never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.
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The closer you get to people who are different than you, the more you learn that we're all same.
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When in doubt, I choose love above any particular ideas offered to me about faith.
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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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