292 Quotes by Glennon Doyle Melton

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

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.

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

I'm not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say, 'For the same reason I laugh so often--because I'm paying attention.' I tell them that we can choose to be perfect and admired or to be real and loved. We must decide.

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

There is beauty to be found in the pain. Life is brutal, but it's also beautiful. Life is Brutiful.

Friend, I am sober today. Thank God Almighty, I’m sober today. I’m here, friend. Yesterday my son turned ten, which means that I haven’t had a drink for ten years and eight months. Lots of beautiful and horrible things have happened to me during the past ten years and eight months, and I have handled my business day in and day out without booze. GOD, I ROCK.

One night I read this in a book about two lovers: 'They could have a whole conversation with just one glance between them,' and it makes my stomach lurch with longing.

His body fills my arms and I think, Oh. So this is what my arms are for.