American - Author | March 20, 1976 -
If you ask a woman who she is, she'll tell you who she serves and sometimes what she does. But that isn't the whole story.
Glennon Doyle Melton
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I can't even carpe 15 minutes in a row. So a whole diem is out of the question.
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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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'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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The most important thing on Earth is for all of us to make this sentence true: Compassion is what people do.
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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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Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.
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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.
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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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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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I think that in order to parent effectively, we are going to have to admit two things: We can't keep our children safe. We can't accept the fact that we can't keep our children safe.
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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?
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