“ Addiction is just a little hiding place where sensitive people can go so we don't have to be touched by love or pain. Glennon Doyle Melton
“ As Anne Lamott suggests, only three prayers are necessary. Mine are Please! Thank you! and WTF??? That’s all the spirituality you’ll need for a while. Glennon Doyle Melton
“ Since the day I decided to become sober and a mother, I've been trying to become who I am supposed to be. Glennon Doyle Melton
“ I'm not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say, 'For the same reason I laugh so often--because I'm paying attention.' I… Glennon Doyle Melton
“ Loving people and animals makes us stronger in the right ways and weaker in the right ways. Even if animals and people leave, even if they die, they leave us better. So we keep loving, even though we… Glennon Doyle Melton
“ There are only two lives we might live: our dream or our destiny. Sometimes they are one in the same, and sometimes they're not. Often our dreams are just a path to our destinies. Glennon Doyle Melton
“ She is trying to be brave, but no one knows what brave looks like inside this particular moment. Glennon Doyle Melton
“ I think sexy is a grown-up word to describes a person who's confident that she is already exactly who she was made to be. A sexy woman knows herself and she likes the way she looks, thinks & feels. Sh… Glennon Doyle Melton
“ I have decided that I'm ready to stop destroying myself and start creating. I have already accepted my invitation and no one will convince me again that I'm not worthy. Not ever again. I have been inv… Glennon Doyle Melton
“ 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 told me to be begins. I'm going back to the starting line. Glennon Doyle Melton
“ The original Hebrew word for woman, a word that is used twice to refer to the first woman, three times to refer to strong military forces, and sixteen times to refer to God, is this: Ezer...I learn th… Glennon Doyle Melton
“ If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, Chase, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated. Glennon Doyle Melton
“ Let’s be Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus’s children, Scout and Jem, carefully watch their father’s behavior as the house next door to theirs burns to the ground. As the fire creeps clo… Glennon Doyle Melton
“ We begin to understand that to coparent is to one day look up and notice that you are on a roller coaster with another human being. You are in the same car, strapped down side by side and you can neve… Glennon Doyle Melton
“ When her pain is fresh and new, let her have it. Don't try to take it away. Forgive yourself for not having that power. Grief and pain are like joy and peace; they are not things we should try to snat… Glennon Doyle Melton
“ We begin to understand that to co-parent is to one day look up and notice that you are on a roller coaster with another human being. You are in the same car, strapped down side by side and you can nev… Glennon Doyle Melton
“ Being human in a world with no tolerance for humanity felt like a setup, a game I couldn't win. But instead of understanding that there might be something wrong with the world, I decided there was som… Glennon Doyle Melton
“ We think our job as humans is to avoid pain, our job as parents is to protect our children from pain, and our job as friends is to fix each other's pain. Maybe that's why we all feel like failures so… Glennon Doyle Melton
“ In all my close friendships, words are the bricks I use to build bridges. To know someone I need to hear her, and to feel known, I need to be heard by her. The process of knowing and loving another pe… Glennon Doyle Melton
