292 Quotes by Glennon Doyle Melton

Life is hard – not because we’re doing it wrong, just because it’s hard.

What else is family if not a commitment to keep showing up?

People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don’t need help.

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

The only constant family rule is that everyone has to keep showing up.

Treat yourself like someone you love.

Forgiveness and grace are like oxygen: we can’t offer it to others unless we put our masks on first. We have to put our grace masks on and breathe in deep. We have to show them how it’s done. We need to love ourselves if we want our kids to love themselves. We don’t necessarily have to love them more; we have to love ourselves more.

Every girl must decide whether to be true to herself or true to the world. Every girl must decide whether to settle for adoration or fight for love. There on the bed, in her pigtails and pain, my daughter was me – the little girl I once was, the woman I am now, still struggling to answer the questions: How can I be expansive and free and still be loved? Am I going to be a lady or am I going to be fully human? Do I trust the unfolding and continue to grow, or do I shut all of this down so I fit?

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