“I surrendered myself to the cages of others' expectations, cultural mandates and institutional allegiances. Until I buried who I was in order to become what I should be. I lost myself when I learned how to please.” — Glennon Doyle Copy Share Image
“My way of life is to dare to imagine the truest, most beautiful life, family and world - and to then conjure up the… — Glennon Doyle Copy Share Image
“The opposite sensitive is not brave. It's not brave to refuse to pay attention, to refuse to notice, to refuse to feel and know… — Glennon Doyle Copy Share Image
“I surrendered myself to the cages of others' expectations, cultural mandates and institutional allegiances. Until I buried who I was in order to become… — Glennon Doyle Copy Share Image
“We can make our own normal. We can throw out all the rules and write our own. We can build our lives from the inside out. We can stop asking what the world wants from us and instead ask ourselves what we want for our world. We can stop looking at what’s in front of us long enough to discover… — Glennon Doyle Copy Share
“I'd been drowning, [...] I'd been flailing on the surface. But what I really needed to do to save myself was let myself sink.… — Glennon Doyle Copy Share Image
“[...] I began allowing my feelings to disturb me. This was scary, because I had always assumed my feelings were so big and powerful that they would stay forever and eventually kill me. But my hard feelings did not stay forever, and they did not kill me. Instead they came andwent, and afterward I was left with something I didn't… — Glennon Doyle Copy Share
“I was amazed at how easy this was. I was filled with electric thunder, simmering water, fiery red and gold, but all I had to do was smile and nod and the world would take me for easy breezy blue. Sometimes I wondered if I wasn’t the only one using her skin to contain herself. Maybe we are all fire… — Glennon Doyle Copy Share
“I am a human being, meant to be in perpetual becoming. My goal is not to remain the same but to live in such… — Glennon Doyle Copy Share Image
“[Whenever we wonder] 'What should I do', instead of asking ourselves what's right or wrong, we must ask ourselves: [...] What is the truest,… — Glennon Doyle Copy Share Image
“[When I meditate,] there in the deep, I could sense something circulating inside me. It was a Knowing. I can know things down at… — Glennon Doyle Copy Share Image
![“I'd been drowning, [...] I'd been flailing on the surface. But what I really needed to do to save myself was let myself sink. It struck me that this is why we say to people, "Calm down." Because beneath the noise of the pounding, swirling surf is a place where all is quiet and clear. The chaos…” quote by Glennon Doyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/682/glennon-doyle-29247_be-still_i-d-been-drowning-i-d-been-flailing-on-t_729717.jpg)
![“[Whenever we wonder] 'What should I do', instead of asking ourselves what's right or wrong, we must ask ourselves: [...] What is the truest, most beautiful story about [this situation in] your life you can imagine?” quote by Glennon Doyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fca/glennon-doyle-29247_find-your-way_whenever-we-wonder-what-should-i-do-inst_1217008.jpg)
![“[When I meditate,] there in the deep, I could sense something circulating inside me. It was a Knowing. I can know things down at this level that I can't on the chaotic surface. Down here, when I pose a question about my life I sense a nudge. The nudge guides me towards [...] the next right thing…” quote by Glennon Doyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/415/glennon-doyle-29247_be-still_when-i-meditate-there-in-the-deep-i-coul_1365602.jpg)