I think of love and marriage in the same way I do plants: We have perennials and annuals. The perennial plant blooms,… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“Maybe there is no way for love to fail, because the eventual result of all love is New Life.” — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
I've never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me. — 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
Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today. — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
I hated writing 'Love Warrior.' It's the hardest thing I've every written. I cried. — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Book tours are super hard for me as a raging introvert. I love humanity, but actual humans are hard for me. So… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Making sensible family rules around cell phones and driving is a way to love yourself, your marriage, your children, and the world… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“Because love is not something for which to search or wait or hope or dream. It's simply something to do.” — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Nothing separates a woman or a family from God's love. Not death, and certainly not divorce. — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you love someone like a mother loves her child, that love can turn into fear. It happens to me all… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“It has been said that the opposite of Love is Hate, or perhaps apathy. Yet, I'm fairly certain that the opposite of… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Love is kind, right? It's not about calling someone out on every little thing you feel. — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“Now I wonder, is love not a feeling but a place between two present people? A sacred place created when two people… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
I snap at people I love all the time, and that makes me feel bad about myself. I want to be Zen.… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“The courage to surrender comes from knowing that the love and pain will almost kill us, but not quite.” — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
The amazing thing about love and attention and encouragement and grace and success and joy is that these things are infinite. We… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
When in doubt, I choose love above any particular ideas offered to me about faith. — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
When folks decide they love any institution more than the individual souls inside them, they're missing the mark. — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
If no pain, then no love. If no darkness, no light. If no risk, then no reward. It's all or nothing. In… — 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
“Grief is love’s souvenir. It’s our proof that we once loved. Grief is the receipt we wave in the air that says… — 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
