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21 " Our children are too vast to fit themselves inside these rigid, mass-produced bottles. But they'll lose themselves trying. "
― Glennon Doyle , Untamed
22 " Every time you're given a choice between disappointing someone else and disappointing yourself, your duty is to disappoint that someone else. Your job throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself. "
23 " After a while, the booze and drugs became her problem, which was convenient because she didn't have to deal with her real problem anymore. "
24 " [...] we steal their boredom from them. As a result, we're raising a generation of writers who will never start writing, artists, who will never start doodling, chefs who will never make a mess of the kitchen, athletes who will never kick a ball against a wall, musicians, who will never pick up their aunt's guitar and start strumming. "
25 " The problem is that the parts of themselves that our boys have been banished from are not feminine traits; they are human traits. There is no such thing as a feminine quality, because there is no such thing as masculinity or femininity. 'Femininity' is just a set of human characteristics a culture pours into a bucket and slaps with the label 'feminine. "
26 " I have been in a mixed-gender marriage and in a same-gender marriage. The same-gender marriage feels so much more natural to me, because there is no constant effort to bridge the gap between two genders that have been trained by our culture to love and live so differently. "
27 " Depression and anxiety are not feelings. Feelings return me to myself. Depression and anxiety are body snatchers that suck me out of myself so that I appear to be there but I’m really gone. Other people can still see me, but no one can feel me anymore—including me. For me, the tragedy of mental illness is not that I’m sad but that I’m not anything. Mental illness makes me miss my own life. "
28 " Depression takes all my vibrant colors and bashes them together until I am gray, gray, gray. "
― Glennon Doyle Melton , Untamed
29 " We forgot how to know when we learned how to please. This is why we live hungry. "
30 " What is the truest, most beautiful story about your life you can imagine? "
31 " If we want to build the new, we must be willing to let the old burn. "
32 " How much of who I've become is inherent, and how much was just inherited? "
33 " My emotions. My intuition. My imagination. My courage. Those are the keys to freedom. Those are who we are. Will we be brave enough to unlock ourselves? Will we be brave enough to set ourselves free? "
34 " Spending a lifetime hating her is no life att all. "
35 " Spending a lifetime hating her is no life at all. "
36 " Who was I before I became who the world told me to be? "
37 " For a long while, I pretended not to know that even though I had only one life, I was spending it inside a lonely marriage. When the knowing threatened to rise, I’d shove it back down. There was no point admitting I knew what I knew, because I would never do what the knowing would require me to do. "
38 " I wanted to be a good girl, so I tried to control myself. I chose a personality, a body, a faith, and a sexuality so tiny I had to hold my breath to fit myself inside. "
39 " Feeling all your feelings is hard, but that's what they're for. Feelings are for feeling. Even the hard ones. "
40 " The culture depends on the sensitivity of a few, because nothing can be healed if it's not sensed first. "