Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes

I so desperately wanted to be honest, and I so desperately wanted to love myself and accept myself for who I was.

I'm not on the stage going, 'Look at me! I'm amazing!' I accept my vulnerability, don't pretend I'm something I'm not. I don't want to come across as fake.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

I will never, ever sit here and say, 'Oh my God, I'm so confident now, I love myself', because I don't.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

Whatever my situation is, I want to show that I'm not perfect, and perfect isn't real. The youth need to know that, especially.

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.

I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.

If you never lie to yourself, you'll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself.

Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest.

I want people to see that I'm a real person, I overreact, I cry, I'm emotional. If I come across as perfect and in control, that wouldn't be who I really am.

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

I have been criticized a lot for not looking perfect in every photograph. I'm not embarrassed about it. I'm proud of it. If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, 'What an actress! What a faker!'

The more successful I become, the more I want to remain like me, with my defects and insecurities.

We all try to pretend we're the person we want to be when we're really not, and you've just gotta be willing to say, 'Here are all my flaws; here's who I am - take it or leave it. If you love me still, then let's do this.'

Does self-acceptance ultimately require another person, or is there a kind of love that does not dabble in the dream of a perfect twinship?

It's not about trying to be perfect. It's not about trying to walk the straight and narrow. It's about loving who you are and finding those people who love and accept you for who you are.

I'm centered in who I am, and I'm really grateful. I'm not perfect.

I stay away from the title of 'role model.' I want to be a more realistic role model - not a perfect Barbie role model.

I don't have any issue with people seeing my real self.

I don't always look so beautiful.

If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.