Marcella > Marcella's Quotes

“Not every tale has a happy ending. In fact, many of them are grim.”
― Chanda Hahn, UnEnchanted

“Mina, trust me, it's better if we don't discuss this anymore. Words have power and it makes it that much easier for the Story to find you.”
― Chanda Hahn, UnEnchanted

“I'm sorry if I have the emotional stability of a teeter-totter right now, but that's better than you, who has the emotional maturity of a rock.”
― Chanda Hahn, Fairest

“I want to be more.”
― Chanda Hahn, UnEnchanted

“..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“When her pain is fresh and new, let her have it. Don't try to take it away. Forgive yourself for not having that power. Grief and pain are like joy and peace; they are not things we should try to snatch from each other. They're sacred. they are part of each person's journey. All we can do is offer relief from this fear: I am all alone. That's the one fear you can alleviate.”
― Glennon Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, Chase, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.”
― Glennon Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“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

“Wherever you go, there you are. Your emptiness goes with you. Maddening. Things that help: writing, reading, water, walks, forgiving myself every other minute, practicing easy yoga, taking deep breaths, and petting my dogs. These things don't fill me completely, but they remind me that it is not my job to fill myself. It's just my job to notice my emptiness and find graceful ways to live as a broken, unfilled human...

If there's a silver lining to the emptiness, here it is: the unfillable is what brings people together. I've never made a friend by bragging about my strengths, but I've made countless by sharing my weakness and my emptiness.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Kind people are brave people. Brave is not something you should wait to feel. Brave is a decision. It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.”
― Glennon Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“I am confident because I believe that I am a child of God. I am humble because I believe that everyone else is too.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life

“If I want my world to be less vicious, then I must become more gentle. If I want my children to embrace other children for who they are, to treat other children with the dignity and respect every child of God deserves, then I had better treat other adults the same way. And I better make sure that my children know beyond a shadow of a doubt that in God's and their father's and my eyes, they are okay. They are loved as they are. Without a single unless. Because the kids who bully are those who are afraid that a secret part of themselves is not okay.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“daughters-in-law, notice the beauty of the rug that your mother-in-law spent a lifetime weaving. Remember that her pattern is mostly firmly established-no need to suggest improvements. Be kinder than necessary, being mindful that the piece of art it took her a lifetime to weave-her masterpiece-she gave to you to keep you warm at night.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life

“I don't believe in advice. Everybody has the answers right inside her, since we're all made up of the same amount of God. So when a friend says, I need some advice, I switch it to, I need some love, and I try to offer that.”
― 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

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

“Parenting is hard. Just like lots of important jobs are hard. Why is it that the second a mother admits that it’s hard, people feel the need to suggest that maybe she’s not doing it right? Or that she certainly shouldn’t add more to her load. Maybe the fact that it’s so hard means she IS doing it right, in her own way, and she happens to be honest.”
― 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

“I love God, whoever he is, and I’d really like to get closer to him. I’ve been thinking about how one of the simplest ways to get close to a woman is to be good to her children. To be kind and gentle and to pay close attention to the things that make them special. To try to see her children the way she sees her children. And how God made us in his image. How he is the mother and father of all of us. So I wonder if that would be the best way to get closer to him too. By being kind and gentle to his children and noticing all of the things that make them special. So many of us spend our time trying to find God in books, but maybe the simplest way to God is directly through the hearts of his children.”
― 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

“stop making parenthood harder by pretending it’s not hard.”
― 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

“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
― Malcom X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Where there is power, there is resistance.”
― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.”
― Ulrike Meinhof