The truth is that cleaning up socks and trying to get someone to really listen to you is marriage. It's less sweep… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“Life is a quest to fin an unfindable thing. We are put here needing something that doesnt exist here.” — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Young people: marry simply, start your life, and party later. Think of how much babysitting for your future colicky baby you could… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
If you're not okay, you might as well not pretend you are, especially since life has a way of holding us down… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
I used to choose friends based on similarity in age and life stage, but I've learned that those were the wrong criteria.… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
The hardest part of living without social media was remembering that my little life was enough, so I could just stay there… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“Who else but a sibling travels with you from the start of life's path to the bitter end?” — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Life is not safe, and so our task is not to promise our kids there will be no turbulence. It's to assure… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“The way this life is designed; the only things you need are the very things that can never been taken from you.” — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
The fact that we define ourselves by our roles can be an admirable thing - it's how we build a life and… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“How was my day? It was a lifetime. It was the best of times and the worst of times. I was both… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
A safe life includes following your dreams with the full knowledge that doing so is not, in any way, shape or form,… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
It is suggested to us a million times a day that our bodies are projects. They aren't. Our lives are. Our spirituality… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Often, we need to ignore the words people say and attend to their underlying, urgent, life or death questions: Am I valuable?… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Sometimes the rewards of risk don't leave us wrecked. Sometimes we find our passion, our purpose, courage, connection, and comfort. Every good thing in… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“Grief is nothing but a painful waiting, a horrible patience. Grief cannot be torn down or scaled or overcome or outsmarted. It can only… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
I ask only child-free pals for parenting advice because they're the only ones sane and well-rested enough to have any real insight. — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“I'm trying to strip myself down to my barest essentials so I can figure out where I begin and where the woman the world… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“Each day, we're making sandcastles I know will be washed away. I long for something solid, lasting, strong between us.” — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
To me, full-time mothering felt like way too much and yet not nearly enough. Lost in a landslide of diapers, birthday parties, and others'… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Rock bottom is a crisis... and everyone wants to avoid crisis. But what 'crisis' means literally is 'to sift' - like a child who… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
We need to make friends with ourselves. We are stuck with our self all day, so let's be kinder, gentler, more amusing company. Let's… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
The truth is that cleaning up socks and trying to get someone to really listen to you is marriage. It's less sweep you off… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“The sun shows up every morning, no matter how bad youve been the night before. It shines without judgment. It never withholds. It warms… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
