Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes

I've told lots of lies in my life. I try not to lie, but I still do. It's very difficult to get to 37 and not be ashamed of something you've done. But I think your life is easier, ultimately, if you're honest.

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.

I can't stand reading anything that I've said.

Never regret what you don't write.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token, I'm acknowledging that I'm not always the perfect man; I'm not always doing the right things. That's who I am. I'm working to be better.

There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted to - but I don't reveal my secrets... I prefer certain things to remain personal; there have to be boundaries. And I don't think you need a scandal to have an interesting story.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

If you're telling a story, and somebody is going to come out badly, it better be you.

Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars... or narcissists.

All the people that criticised me should eat their words.

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. And I'm really sensitive, so I take even small mistakes as huge ones.

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

If you're embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn't include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.

One of the commitments I made to myself when I decided to write a book was to be brutally honest, particularly about myself.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.

We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.