292 Quotes by Glennon Doyle Melton

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.

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

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.

Sister, who needs an umbrella when you are the whole sky?” All.

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.

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.

But the paradox of pain is that it is only universal in retrospect. In the present, it is fiercely personal.

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

What if pain – like love – is just a place brave people visit?