Top 180 Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Chase’s eyes still glistened while a tiny smile emerged like a hesitant rainbow. This might be his best look. And it is my favorite moment in life. When you realize, “Wow, this is bad. Really, really bad. But we’re still here. We’re gonna make it through. Not over or under or around, but through. And look, we’re even going to smile again.”

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52. “The Warrior feeds all three of her selves: mind, spirit, body. I breathe deeply and then start on the potatoes. Eat until you’re full. Trust your body to guide you. Treat yourself like someone you love, Glennon. Listen to what you want and need and give it to yourself. Be your own friend.”

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53. “Every beautiful thing in life comes out of the mess.”

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54. “I think one of the keys to happiness is accepting that I am never going to be perfectly happy. Life is uncomfortable. So I might as well get busy loving the people around me... I’m going to quit chasing happiness long enough to notice it smiling right at me.”

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55. “They look because she’s lovely but they stare because she is love.”

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56. “God deals only with truth and the truth will set you free, but it will hurt so badly first. Sobering up will be like walking toward my own crucifixion.”

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57. “I think I love my people more than normal people love their people. My love is so overwhelming and terrifying and uncomfortable and complicated that I need to hide from it.”

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58. “Forgiveness and grace are like oxygen: we can’t offer it to others unless we put our masks on first.”

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59. “Maybe my reliance on numbing is keeping me from the two things I was born for: learning and loving. I could go on hitting easy buttons until I die and feel no pain, but the cost of that decision could be that I’ll never learn, love, or be truly alive.”

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60. “Just as I’d understood the rules for girls, surely he’d absorbed the world’s rules for boys – that emotions are forbidden, that to be a successful boy he needed to ‘buck up and be a man.’ Do girls abandon our bodies because that’s where we’re shamed and boys abandon their emotions because that’s where they’re shamed? Little boy: Don’t feel. Little girls: Don’t hunger.”

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61. “The only constant family rule is that everyone has to keep showing up.”

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62. “Most of the magic in my life has happened after my heart has been shattered.”

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63. “Faith is not a club to belong to, but a current to surrender to.”

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64. “I am at peace. And I understand that I am in the middle of a reunion with God. This is a returning of my soul to its source. My soul’s source is God, and God is love. I am, right at this moment, in perfect love with God and there is no fear in perfect love.”

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65. “Learning how to gracefully accept criticism and compliments is hard, but I’m trying.”

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66. “I wonder if the priest knows that while he’s up here charging for forgiveness, Mary’s back there handing it out for free.”

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67. “I don’t believe in advice. Everybody has the answers right inside her, since we’re all made up of the same amount of God. So when a friend says, I need some advice, I switch it to, I need some love, and I try to offer that.”

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68. “Grace makes no disclaimer. It’s true for all or none.”

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69. “You have to be known to be loved, and none of these waving people knows me.”

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70. “I promised myself it would all be okay if I followed three simple rules: Show Up, Be Brave, and Be Kind. No.”

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71. “Our story is the only thing we have that is completely our own. A person who steals it and uses it to entertain is the worst kind of thief.”

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72. “The messiest parts of our lives are also the most beautiful parts of our lives.”

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73. “She is trying to be brave, but no one knows what brave looks like inside this particular moment.”

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74. “People always seem quite shocked by the cruelty that’s happening in America’s schools. I’m baffled by their shock, and I’m concerned about what’s not being addressed in their proposed solutions.”

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75. “If you are uncomfortable – in deep pain, angry, yearning, confused – you don’t have a problem, you have a life. Being human is not hard because you’re doing it wrong, it’s hard because you’re doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.”

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76. “I think about the tragedies the women in my life have faced. How every time a child gets sick or a man leaves or a parent dies or a community crumbles, the women are the ones who carry on, who do what must be done for their people in the midst of their own pain.”

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77. “Stop spending all day obsessing, cursing, perfecting your body like it’s all you’ve got to offer the world. Your body is not your art, it’s your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant. What is relevant is that you have a paintbrush which can be used to transfer your insides onto the canvas of your life – where others can see it and be inspired and comforted by it.”

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78. “Holes are good for making friends, and friends are the best fillers I’ve found yet. Maybe because other people are the closest we get to God on this side. So when we use them to find God in each other, we become holy.”

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79. “There is beauty to be found in the pain. Life is brutal, but it’s also beautiful. Life is Brutiful.”

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80. “I understand that you can love someone so much it aches and still hurt them, again and again. I know that you can love and betray the very same person.”

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81. “Grief is nothing but a painful waiting, a horrible patience. Grief cannot be torn down or scaled or overcome or outsmarted. It can only be outlasted. Survival is surrender to the brick wall. There.”

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82. “What my friends didn’t know about me and I didn’t know about Amma is that people who are hurting don’t need Avoiders, Protectors, or Fixers. What we need are patient, loving witnesses. People to sit quietly and hold space for us. People to stand in helpless vigil to our pain.”

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83. “Addiction is just a little hiding place where sensitive people can go so we don’t have to be touched by love or pain.”

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84. “Now I wonder, is love not a feeling but a place between two present people? A sacred place created when two people decide it’s safe enough to let their real selves surface and touch each other? Is that why it’s called in love? Because you have to visit there?”

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85. “Love is not a victory march; it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah. I.”

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86. “Life is hard – not because we’re doing it wrong, just because it’s hard.”

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87. “The music is a safe place to practice being human. In the span of one song I can feel it all, let it all come – joy and hope and terror and rage and love – and then let it pass. The song always ends. I survive every time. This is how I know I’m getting better: I become able to survive the beauty of music. I have accepted another one of life’s dangerous invitations: the invitation to feel.”

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88. “This is the difference between God and booze. God requires something of us. The booze numbs the pain but God insists on nothing short of healing. God deals only with truth and the truth will set you free, but it will hurt so badly first. Sobriety will be like walking toward my own crucifixion. that what it will take though. That’s what it will take to rise.”

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89. “That’s how you can tell that you’re filling yourself with the wrong things. You use a lot of energy, and in the end, you feel emptier and less comfortable than ever. Bulimia.”

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90. “Be confident because you are a child of God. Be humble because everyone else is too.”

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91. “I’m stuck in anxiety quicksand: The harder I try to climb my way out, the lower I sink.”

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92. “I have decided that I’m ready to stop destroying myself and start creating. I have already accepted my invitation and no one will convince me again that I’m not worthy. Not ever again. I have been invited and I have said Yes. My Yes is final.”

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93. “Let’s begin at the beginning. It’s our only choice, it turns out.”

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94. “Why does a woman’s neutral face mean anger, while a man’s neutral face means neutral?”

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95. “The courage to surrender comes from knowing that the love and pain will almost kill us, but not quite.”

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96. “We know what the world wants from us. We know we must decide whether to stay small, quiet, and uncomplicated or allow ourselves to grow as big, loud, and complex as we were made to be. Every girl must decide whether to be true to herself or true to the world. Every girl must decide whether to settle for adoration or fight for love.”

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97. “By the time we landed in the hospital, most of our families considered us insensitive liars, but we didn’t start out that way. We started out as ultrasensitive truth tellers. We saw everyone around us smiling and repeating “I’m fine! I’m fine! I’m fine!” and we fund ourselves unable to join them in all the pretending. We had to tell the truth, which was: “Actually, I’m not fine.”

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98. “Every girl must decide whether to be true to herself or true to the world. Every girl must decide whether to settle for adoration or fight for love.”

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99. “I do not have the heart to suggest that maybe life doesn’t respect the boundaries of our tidy formulas, and that knowledge is not a fortress that keeps out pain.”

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100. “The original Hebrew word for woman, a word that is used twice to refer to the first woman, three times to refer to strong military forces, and sixteen times to refer to God, is this: Ezer... I learn this: “The word Ezer has two roots: strong and benevolent. The best translation of Ezer is: Warrior.” God created woman as a Warrior.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton