292 Quotes by Glennon Doyle Melton

Reading is my inhale and writing is my exhale.

Also, 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.

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.

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

If you can feel, then there has been no amputation. If you can feel, you are not too late.

What if in skipping the pain, I was missing my lessons?

Whatever is our new spiritual motto and mantra. Whatever is divine.

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

Happiness is low expectations paired with a short-term memory problem.