Ali Gibbs > Ali's Quotes

“If people only realized what a war goes on in a child’s mind and heart in a situation of this kind, I think they would try to explain more than they do,”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don’t need help.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“If you can feel, then there has been no amputation. If you can feel, you are not too late.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Don’t ask, “What can I do?” She doesn’t know. Just do something.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Grief and pain are like joy and peace; they are not things we should try to snatch from each other. They’re sacred.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Happiness is low expectations paired with a short-term memory problem.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“The only constant family rule is that everyone has to keep showing up.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Also, fancy language tends to make in people feel more in and out people feel more out, and I don’t think that’s how words are best used.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“I’m not big on advice, mainly because most days I learn what an idiot I was yesterday.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“These things will be hard to do, but you can do hard things.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“there is no prize for most composed.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“stop making parenthood harder by pretending it’s not hard.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“That’s the thing about parenting: anxious if you do, anxious if you don’t.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“quit trying to become a better parent and decided to try becoming a better person.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“A heart expands exactly as much as her owner allows.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“I’d like to be kind, and at the very least not add to people’s pain.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“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 Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Learning how to gracefully accept criticism and compliments is hard, but I’m trying.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“What can I, as a neighbor, do to help level the playing field?”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“sometimes we get confused and believe that our gift must bring us money or success or fame.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Life is brutal, but it’s also beautiful. Life is Brutiful.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Whatever is our new spiritual motto and mantra. Whatever is divine.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“There is no substitute on God’s Green Earth for girlfriends.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Because it will be beautiful. That is the truest answer to the question I’ve been asked for so many years.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“You have to turn your head to see peripheral miracles.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“I promised myself it would all be okay if I followed three simple rules: Show Up, Be Brave, and Be Kind. No”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern. 4.”
― Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships

“But one of the hallmarks of emotional maturity is to recognize the validity of multiple realities and to understand that people think, feel, and react differently. Often we behave as if “closeness” means “sameness.”
― Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships

“venting anger does not solve the problem that anger signals.”
― Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships

“Yet all of us are vulnerable to intense, nonproductive angry reactions in our current relationships if we do not deal openly and directly with emotional issues from our first family—in particular, losses and cutoffs.”
― Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships