292 Quotes by Glennon Doyle Melton

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.

I must smile as we go down so everyone can drown peacefully.

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.

People who are hurting don’t need Avoiders, Protectors, or Fixers. What we need are patient, loving witness. People to sit quietly and hold space for us. People to stand in helpful vigil to our pain.

I am confident because I believe that I am a child of God. I am humble because I believe that everyone else is too.

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

Maybe we need to look at them and say ‘I see your pain. It’s real. I feel it too. We can handle it. We can do hard things. Because we are warriors.

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

I consider the possibility that I’ve been right and wrong my whole life. I was right to want to be beautiful and sexy; I was just wrong to have accepted someone else’s idea of what those words mean.