““I learned that there is a type of pain in life that I want to feel. It's the inevitable, excruiating, necessary pain of losing beautiful things: trust, dreams, health, animals, relationships, people. This kind of pain is the price of love, the cost of living a brave openhearted life – and I'll pay it. There is another kind of pain that comes not from losing beautiful things but from never even trying for them. [...] It's the pain of a woman who has slowly abandoned herself.””
![“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)
![“[...] 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…” quote by Glennon Doyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/623/glennon-doyle-29247_dissociative_i-began-allowing-my-feelings-to-disturb_961859.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)
