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Glennon Melton

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Glennon Doyle is an American author and queer activist known for her books Untamed, Love Warrior, We Can Do Hard Things and Carry On, Warrior.

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Notable works: Carry On Warrior Thoughts On Life Unarmed

About Glennon Melton

Glennon Doyle is an American author and queer activist known for her books Untamed, Love Warrior, We Can Do Hard Things and Carry On, Warrior. Doyle is also the creator of the online community Momastery, and is the founder and president of Together Rising, a women-led nonprofit organization supporting women, families, and children in crisis.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Glennon Melton

No relationship would be successful without a little compromise. If you can't learn to do that then I'm sorry to say your…

Being successful

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The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the…

Advice

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“Education is like Christmas. We’re all just opening our gifts, one at a time. And it is a fact that each and…

Autism

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“Persevere. Bear with great patience each other’s infirmities of body or behavior. And when the thorns of contention arise, daily forgive, and…

Forgiveness

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A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.

Bad day

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I think that sometimes quitting is exactly the right thing to do. Quitting something that's not working requires self-awareness and courage.

Awareness

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“Here's my hunch: nobody's secure, and nobody feels like she completely belongs. Those insecurities are just job hazards of being human. But…

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“When one is burying a dream, one might as well plant another dream.”

Dream

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If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, then we really are aiming quite low.…

Different

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I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how…

Acceptance

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There are only two lives we might live: our dream or our destiny. Sometimes they are one in the same, and sometimes…

Destiny

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I think when your heart hurts this much it means you opened it wide once- and that is something to be proud…

Be proud

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If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you're good…

Calling

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“I think one of the keys to happiness is accepting that I am never going to be perfectly happy. Life is uncomfortable.…

Happiness

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“What is to give light must endure burning.” —Viktor E. Frankl”

Light

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During my drinking decades, I lived like a pig. My room was a hazardous pile of stilettos, tube tops, wine bottles, ashtrays,…

Addiction

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“Since brokenness is the way of folks, the only way to live peacefully is to forgive everyone constantly, including yourself.”

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“Why does it have to hurt? Why does it have to be hard?” Tish asked me. “You know how math is your…

Life

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“Speaking of messy, I recently quit parenting. I do not parent in August. August parenting is not a good look for me.…

Parenting

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“You have been offered "the gift of crisis". As Kathleen Norris reminds us, the Greek root of the word crisis is "to…

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“Kind people are brave people. Brave is not something you should wait to feel. Brave is a decision. It is a decision…

Compassion

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I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.

Addict

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“I learned that in these disasters, all we can do is tell our In Case of Emergencies that their grief is real,…

Grief

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It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.

Compassion

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You are not a mess. You are a feely person in a messy world.

Mess

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