Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I am enough simply because I have been given life. Growing up, I constantly found myself trying to please others because I wanted to be included and validated. I expended myself completely.

Fame won't make you feel any better about yourself.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.

You are absolutely enough the way you are.

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

The secret is not to care what anyone thinks of you.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It's impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

There's always going to be someone somewhere who doesn't agree with my parents' opinion of me. It can't bother you.

I feel like I deserve to be loved because I've learned to love myself.

I think that's the most beautiful thing about being confident - just loving yourself, not caring what everybody else thinks. Because you could be Mother Theresa, and people are still going to try to find some imperfection.

Only you can give yourself the love you need and deserve.

Every girl wants the same thing - to be accepted and loved for who she is.

Nobody likes it when people say bad things about you, because we're all human beings and we have feelings. Ultimately, though, I always try to make sure that my happiness doesn't depend on what people say but on what I feel in my heart.

I am toothy, dumpy, ugly, overweight, a spinster - what the hell?

You have to be able to appreciate who you are.

Carrying yourself with poise and joy and peace within - that's sexy.

The people who are most attractive to me are those who feel most comfortable in their skin - there's a sense of self-acceptance.

You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.

I'm still learning to love myself.

Be happy in your own skin.

I am not the best. I don't have to be. I am enough.

I've really come to realize you have to love yourself before you can expect someone else to.