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“Because love is not something for which to search or wait or hope or dream. It’s simply something to do.” (Carry On, Warrior Quotes)
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. —Howard Thurman”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“Every beautiful thing in life comes out of the mess.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“Happiness is low expectations paired with a short-term memory problem.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“Here’s my hunch: nobody’s secure, and nobody feels like she completely belongs. Those insecurities are just job hazards of being human. But some people dance anyway, and those people have more fun.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“Holes are good for making friends, and friends are the best fillers I’ve found yet. Maybe because other people are the closest we get to God on this side. So when we use them to find God in each other, we become holy.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“I am confident because I believe that I am a child of God. I am humble because I believe that everyone else is too.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“I’m not big on advice, mainly because most days I learn what an idiot I was yesterday.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“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
Carry On, Warrior
“If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you’re good enough. Just do it. Be generous. Offer a gift to the world that no one else can offer: yourself.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“Kind people are brave people. Brave is not something you should wait to feel. Brave is a decision. It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“Life is a quest to find an unfindable thing. We are put here needing something that doesnt exist here.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“Life is brutal, but it’s also beautiful. Life is Brutiful.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“Life is hard—not because we’re doing it wrong, just because it’s hard.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“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 might lose, because loving teaches us and changes us.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“Parenting is hard. Just like lots of important jobs are hard. Why is it that the second a mother admits that it’s hard, people feel the need to suggest that maybe she’s not doing it right? Or that she certainly shouldn’t add more to her load. Maybe the fact that it’s so hard means she is doing it right, in her own way, and she happens to be honest.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“Peace isn’t the absence of distraction or annoyance or pain. It’s finding me, finding peace and calm, in the midst of those distractions and annoyances and pains.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don’t need help.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“Persevere. Bear with great patience each other’s infirmities of body or behavior. And when the thorns of contention arise, daily forgive, and be ready to accept forgiveness.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“Reading is my inhale and writing is my exhale.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“Since brokenness is the way of folks, the only way to live peacefully is to forgive everyone constantly, including yourself.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“That’s how you can tell that you’re filling yourself with the wrong things. You use a lot of energy, and in the end, you feel emptier and less comfortable than ever.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“That’s the thing about becoming a family: you gotta melt. You have to keep melting into each other until you become something entirely new. The only constant family rule is that everyone has to keep showing up.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“The only constant family rule is that everyone has to keep showing up.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“The sun shows up every morning, no matter how bad you’ve been the night before. It shines without judgment. It never withholds. It warms the sinners, the saints, the druggies, the cheerleaders- the saved and the heathens alike. You can hide from the sun, but it won’t take you personally. It´ll never, ever punish your for hiding. You can stay in the dark for years or decades, and when you finally step outside, it´ll be there.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“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
Carry On, Warrior
“These things don’t fill me completely, but they remind me that it is not my job to fill myself. It’s just my job to notice my emptiness and find graceful ways to live as a broken, unfilled human—and maybe to help myself and others feel a teeny bit better.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“These things will be hard to do, but you can do hard things.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“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 snatch from each other. They’re sacred. they are part of each person’s journey. All we can do is offer relief from this fear: I am all alone. That’s the one fear you can alleviate.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“When reentering society and risking rejection, the library is a good place to start. They have low expectations. I love the library. Also church. Both have to take you in.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“When you write your truth, it is a love offering to the world because it helps us feel braver and less alone.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
“You have been offered “the gift of crisis”. As Kathleen Norris reminds us, the Greek root of the word crisis is “to sift”, as in, to shake out the excesses and leave only what’s important. That’s what crises do. They skae things up until we are forced to hold on to only what matters most. The rest falls away.”
Glennon Doyle
Carry On, Warrior
