Top 180 Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “When reentering society and risking rejection, the library is a good place to start. They have low expectations. I love the library. Also church. Both have to take you in.”

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102. “If I want to know: Is there anyone on earth who won’t betray me? I must answer myself: Yes. Look in the mirror. She won’t betray you. So.”

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103. “Women who are concerned with being pretty think about what they look like, but women who are concerned with being beautiful think about what they are looking at. They are taking it all in. They are taking in the whole beautiful world and making all that beauty theirs to give away to others.”

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104. “The music is a safe place to practice being human.”

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105. “It strikes me that it’s always religious people who are most surprised by grace. Those hoops we become so exhausted from jumping through? We created them. We forget that our maker made us human, and so it’s okay – maybe exactly right – to be human. We are ashamed of the design of the one we claim to worship. So we sweep up our mess and hide our doubts, contradictions, anger, and fear before showing ourselves to God, which is like putting on a fancy dress and makeup to prepare for an X-ray.”

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106. “Being human in a world with no tolerance for humanity felt like a setup, a game I couldn’t win. But instead of understanding that there might be something wrong with the world, I decided there was something wrong with me.”

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107. “I’m trying to strip myself down to my barest essentials so I can figure out where I begin and where the woman the world told me to be begins. I’m going back to the starting line.”

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108. “Maybe, for now, the only right decision is to stop making decisions.” She.”

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109. “But I drink differently than they do. They drink to take the edge off. I drink to disappear.”

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110. “So what is it in a human life that creates bravery, kindness, wisdom, and reilience? What if it’s pain? What if it’s the struggle?”

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111. “Then I remember what my most important parenting job is, and that is to teach my children how to deal with being human. Because most likely, that’s where they’re headed. No matter what I do, they’re headed toward being messed-up humans faster than three brakeless railroad cars. There is really only one way to deal gracefully with being human, and that is this: Forgive yourself.”

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112. “Since the day I decided to become sober and a mother, I’ve been trying to become who I am supposed to be.”

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113. “When you write your truth, it is a love offering to the world because it helps us feel braver and less alone.”

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114. “I am loved and have always been loved and will always, always be loved. I have never been separated from this love, I have only convinced myself I was.”

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115. “He is human. I hadn’t wanted him to be human. I had wanted him to be perfect and golden – steady and solid, simple and strong – so that I could be messy, complicated, and weak. But we are each all of those things.”

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116. “I remember that there is no right answer. There are only stories to tell. Every day the world will tell my girls its story about sexiness and what it means to be a woman. My girls need to hear my story. Not so my story will become theirs, but so they’ll understand that they are free to write their own stories. They need to know that much of what the world presents to them is not truth, it’s poison. And my girls will only be able to detect lies if they know what truth sounds like.”

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117. “This initial numbness and denial is shock and it is a gift. Shock is a grace period. It gives a woman time to gather what she needs around her, before the exhaustion and panic set in like a heavy snow. Shock allows her time to circle her people so that she can enter the hard work of grief, which will require all of her. Shock is the window offered after the fall so a woman can prepare herself for winter. Two.”

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118. “Whatever is our new spiritual motto and mantra. Whatever is divine.”

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119. “I’ll be helpless and broken and still – surrendered to my powerlessness. Mutual surrender, maybe that’s an act of love. Surrendering to this thing that’s bigger than we are: this love, this pain. The courage to surrender comes from knowing that the love and pain will almost kill us, but not quite.”

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120. “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 that I don’t have to. I want to travel light.”

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121. “Teamwork. Love takes teamwork, I think.”

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122. “Every girl must decide whether to be true to herself or true to the world.”

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123. “These things don’t fill me completely, but they remind me that it is not my job to fill myself. It’s just my job to notice my emptiness and find graceful ways to live as a broken, unfilled human – and maybe to help myself and others feel a teeny bit better.”

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124. “She pauses and then says: “Maybe, for now, the only right decision is to stop making decisions.”

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125. “I’m not big on advice, mainly because most days I learn what an idiot I was yesterday.”

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126. “The journey is learning that pain, like love, is simply something to surrender to. It’s a holy space we can enter with people only if we promise not to tidy up.”

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127. “Fancy language tends to make “in” people feel more in and “out” people feel more out, and I don’t think that’s how words are best used. Words are best used to describe specific feelings, ideas, and hearts as clearly as possible – to make the speaker and the listener, or the writer and the reader, feel less alone and more hopeful.”

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128. “Pain transforms one woman into two so that she has someone to walk with, someone to sit with her in the dark when everyone else leaves.”

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129. “I’ve only begun the work that needs to be done here. Not yet, the voice says. Not yet. See this through. Unbecome, Glennon. Unbecome until you uncover who you really are.”

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130. “I’m not killing myself, I think as I open the door. I’m just not doing what’s required to live. There has to be a difference. I.”

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131. “It’s ok to feel too much and know too little.”

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132. “To arrive inside the moment in which you are supposed to feel more connected than at any other moment of your life and still feel lonely is utterly terrifying. It is the most lonely you can possibly feel. I.”

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133. “They wanted to adore me and I complicated things by inserting myself into their experience of me. I.”

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134. “Don’t ask, “What can I do?” She doesn’t know. Just do something.”

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135. “A woman doesn’t need to be told, yet again, that she’s bad. She needs to be told that she’s good. Mary didn’t ask me to repent. She asked me to rest.”

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136. “On my way out to my car the next morning, I see an index card taped to my front door. It says, “Everything will be okay.” It’s written in my dad’s handwriting. He must have driven over in the middle of the night to leave this message for me. I believe him.”

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137. “It has been said that the opposite of Love is Hate, or perhaps apathy. Yet, I’m fairly certain that the opposite of Love is Fear. I think the root of all evil is fear.”

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138. “I need to sit with the quiet. I know that much.”

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139. “Sometimes you have to leave to discover that you left everything you needed back home.”

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140. “We acted out our truth instead of speaking it and everything became a godforsaken mess. But we were just trying to be honest. My.”

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141. “My whole life is an apology, and that hasn’t made a damn thing better.”

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142. “My destiny is to remind you to look up from the castles you’re building in the sand long enough to notice the cathedrals that God’s building all around you – without you, without your sweat, without your tears, without your consent. While you dream your dreams, he’s busy building your destiny. And there is as much beauty in your destiny as there was in your dream. Let go and believe that whatever its is, it will be beautiful.”

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143. “His forgetfulness feels like carelessness, and his carelessness feels like rejection.”

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144. “We either allow ourselves to feel the burn of our own pain or someone we love gets burned by it.”

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145. “Please, no. Let’s stay here with our precious cups and drink safely alone. Everything is perfect. Why must you always ruin drinking by adding scary people and things?”

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146. “Marketers need us to believe that our pain is a mistake that can be solved with their product.”

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147. “We need to be Atticus. Hands in our pockets. Calm. Believing. So that our children will look at us and even with a fire raging in front of them, they’ll say, “Huh. Guess it’s not time to worry yet.” Then we’ll watch carefully. We’ll just watch and wait and believe until God nods and says, “It’s time. Tear open that gift, Mama.”

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148. “What else is family if not a commitment to keep showing up?”

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149. “When they speak to you from their fear – speak past their fear and directly to their love. Their Love will step forward eventually.”

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150. “We talked about how impossible it is to read minds and hearts and what a relief it is to hear what the person you love needs and learn how to give it.”

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