200 of Glennon Doyle Untamed Quotes to Find Guidance
Glennon Doyle’s Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a rousing wake-up call. If you have faced difficulties in life, these Glennon Doyle untamed quotes will motivate you to persevere and have a better life for yourself.
Glennon Doyle Inspiring Quotes
1. I looked hard at my faith, my friendships, my work, my sexuality, my entire life and asked: How much of this was my idea?…Who was I before I became who the world told me to be?
2. People aren’t changing, after all. It’s just that for the first time, there’s enough freedom for people to stop changing who they are.
3. Grief is a cocoon from which we emerge new.
4. Grief shatters. If you let yourself shatter and then you put yourself back together, piece by piece, you wake up one day and realize that you have been completely reassembled. You are whole again, and strong, but you are suddenly a new shape, a new size.
5. To me, faith is not a public allegiance to a set of outer beliefs, but a private surrender to the inner Knowing.
6. Our judgment is self-protection; it’s a cage we put around ourselves. We hope it will keep danger out, but it only keeps tenderness and empathy from coming in.
7. People will like me or not, but being liked is not my One Thing; integrity is…I’m willing to lose anything that requires me to hide any part of myself.
8. To be brave is to forsake all others to be true to yourself. That is the vow of a confident girl.
9. I am a human being, meant to be in perpetual becoming. If I am living bravely, my entire life will become a million deaths and rebirths.
10. This is the most revolutionary thing a woman can do: the next precise thing, one thing at a time, without asking permission or offering explanation.
11. I wondered if joy had as much to teach me as pain did. If so, I wanted to know.
12. Trusting people is terrifying. Maybe if love is not a little scary and out of our control, then it is not love at all.
13. It’s nearly impossible to blaze one’s own path while following in someone else’s footsteps.
14. The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that there was something wrong with me.
15. There is no one way to live, love, raise children, arrange a family, run a school, a community, a nation.
16. All the devil has to do to win is convince you he’s God.
17. You are not crazy. You are a goddamn cheetah.
18. Brave means living from the inside out. Brave means, in every uncertain moment, turning inward, feeling for the Knowing, and speaking it out loud.
19. If you are uncomfortable—in deep pain, angry, yearning, confused—you don’t have a problem, you have a life.
20. What is better: uncomfortable truth or comfortable lies? Every truth is a kindness, even if it makes others uncomfortable. Every untruth is an unkindness, even if it makes others comfortable.
21. I did not know that I was supposed to feel everything. I thought I was supposed to feel happy.
22. The beauty industry convinces us that our thighs, frizz, skin, fingernails, lips, eyelashes, leg hair, and wrinkles are repulsive and must be covered and manipulated, so we learn to not trust the bodies we live in.
23. I have to search for and depend upon the voice of inner wisdom instead of voices of outer approval.
24. Love is the opposite of control. Love demands trust.
25. There is no one way to live, love, raise children, arrange a family, run a school, a community, a nation. The norms were created by somebody, and each of us is somebody. We can make our own normal.
26. I have learned that if I want to rise, I have to sink first.
27. Every life is an unprecedented experiment. This life is mine alone.
28. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been. There is no map. We are all pioneers.
29. The facts were right there in front of me to see. But the truth was right there inside of me to feel.
30. My children do not need me to save them. My children need to watch me save myself.
31. A woman becomes a responsible parent when she stops being an obedient daughter.
32. The braver I am, the luckier I get.
33. Freedom is not being for or against an ideal, but creating your own existence from scratch.
34. You are not here to waste your time deciding whether my life is true and beautiful enough for you. You are here to decide if your life, relationships, and world are true and beautiful enough for you.
35. When a woman finally learns that pleasing the world is impossible, she becomes free to learn how to please herself.
36. This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been.
37. The thing that gets me thinking and questioning most deeply is a leader who warns me not to think or question.
38. Because once we feel, know, and dare to imagine more for ourselves, we cannot unfeel, unknow, or unimagine. There is no going back.
39. Privilege is being born on third base. Ignorant privilege is thinking you’re there because you hit a triple. Malicious privilege is complaining that those starving outside the ballpark aren’t waiting patiently enough.
40. Hard work is important. So are play and nonproductivity. My worth is tied not to my productivity but to my existence. I am worthy of rest.
41. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.
42. Be careful with the stories you tell about yourself.
43. The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it’s supposed to be.
44. The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that there was something wrong with me.
45. The epitome of womanhood is to lose one’s self completely. That is the end goal of every patriarchal culture. Because a very effective way to control women is to convince women to control themselves.
46. It’s not the cruel criticism from folks who hate us that scares us away from our Knowing; it’s the quiet concern of those who love us.
47. Being human is not hard because you’re doing it wrong, it’s hard because you’re doing it right.
48. A woman who is full of herself knows and trusts herself enough to say and do what must be done. She lets the rest burn.
49. Blessed are those brave enough to make things awkward, for they wake us up and move us forward.
50. When a woman finally learns that pleasing the world is impossible, she becomes free to learn how to please herself.
51. “Since brokenness is the way of folks, the only way to live peacefully is to forgive everyone constantly, including yourself.”
52. “Recovery is an unbecoming. My healing has been a peeling away of costume after costume until here I am, still and naked before God, stripped down to my real identity.”
53. “I don’t want to take anything to the grave. I want to die used up and emptied out. I don’t want to carry around anything that I don’t have to. I want to travel light.”
54. “I am loved and have always been loved and will always, always be loved. I have never been separated from this love, I have only convinced myself I was.”
55. “Every girl must decide whether to be true to herself or true to the world. Every girl must decide whether to settle for adoration or fight for love.”
56. “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
57. “When one is burying a dream, one might as well plant another dream.”
58. “Perhaps imagination is not where we go to escape reality but where we go to remember it.”
59. “I’ve only begun the work that needs to be done here. Not yet, the voice says. Not yet. See this through. Unbecome, Glennon. Unbecome until you uncover who you really are.”
60. “Hard work is important. So are play and non-productivity. My worth is tied not to my productivity but to my existence. I am worthy of rest.”
61. “Peace isn’t the absence of distraction or annoyance or pain. It’s finding Me, finding peace and calm, in the midst of those distractions and annoyances and pains.”
62. “If we empty our hearts every night, they won’t get too heavy or cluttered. Our hearts will stay light and open with lots of room for good new things to come.”
63. “Be critical, fine, that’s fair. But don’t be cruel. Every damn one of us knows the difference.”
64. “These things will be hard to do, but you can do hard things.”
65. “When you write your truth, it is a love offering to the world because it helps us feel braver and less alone.”
66. “It’s ok to feel too much and know too little.”
67. “Reading is my inhale and writing is my exhale.”
68. “Grief and pain are like joy and peace; they are not things we should try to snatch from each other. They’re sacred.”
69. “This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been.”
70. “Judgment is self-abandonment.”
71. “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.”
72. “The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it’s supposed to be.”
73. “No woman on earth doesn’t give a f*ck — no woman is that cool —she’s just hidden her fire. Likely, it’s burning her up.”
74. “Every beautiful thing in life comes out of the mess.”
75. “Life is a quest to find an unfindable thing. We are put here needing something that doesn’t exist here.”
76. “The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that there was something wrong with me.”
77. “Trusting people is terrifying. Maybe if love is not a little scary and out of our control, then it is not love at all.”
78. “It turned out what I needed most was inside the one place I’d been running from my entire life: pain.”
79. “Stop making parenthood harder by pretending it’s not hard.”
80. “People who are hurting don’t need avoiders, protectors, or fixers. What we need are patient, loving witnesses. People to sit quietly and hold space for us. People to stand in helpful vigil to our pain.”
81. “I will not stay — not ever again — in a room or conversation or relationship or institution that requires me to abandon myself.”
82. “I’m trying to strip myself down to my barest essentials so I can figure out where I begin and where the woman the world told me to be begins. I’m going back to the starting line.”
83. “Be careful with the stories you tell about yourself.”
84. “People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don’t need help.”
85. “What if pain — like love — is just a place brave people visit?”
86. “I did not know that I was supposed to feel everything. I thought I was supposed to feel happy.”
87. “I have met my self, and I am going to care for her fiercely.”
88. “It’s nearly impossible to blaze one’s own path while following in someone else’s footsteps.”
89. “I decided that if I kept doing the ‘right’ thing, I would spend my life following someone else’s directions instead of my own.”
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90. “To me, intimacy is about communication. Through the written or spoken or physically expressed word, communicating is how we get into each other’s hearts and minds.”
91. “People will like me or not, but being liked is not my one thing; integrity is… I’m willing to lose anything that requires me to hide any part of myself.”
92. “What if in skipping the pain, I was missing my lessons?”
93. “We think our job as humans is to avoid pain, our job as parents is to protect our children from pain, and our job as friends is to fix each other’s pain. Maybe that’s why we all feel like failures so often — because we all have the wrong job description for love.”
94. “We are so afraid of dying. Also of living.”
95. “Blessed are those brave enough to make things awkward, for they wake us up and move us forward.”
96. “These things will be hard, but you can do hard things.”
97. “Recovery is unbecoming. My healing has been a peeling away of costume after costume until here I am, still and naked before God, stripped down to my real identity.”
98. “The most revolutionary thing a woman can do is not explain herself.”
99. “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.”
100. “We only control what we don’t trust.”
101. “Life is hard — not because we’re doing it wrong, just because it’s hard.”
102. “You can’t lose people who never even found you.”
103. “Grief shatters. If you let yourself shatter and then you put yourself back together, piece by piece, you wake up one day and realize that you have been completely reassembled.”
104. “It’s OK to feel too much and know too little.”
105. “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.”
106. “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”
107. “So what is it in a human life that creates bravery, kindness, wisdom, and resilience? What if it’s pain? What if it’s the struggle?”
108. “Because love is not something for which to search or wait or hope or dream. It’s simply something to do.”
109.“Be messy and complicated and afraid, and show up anyway.”
110. “The journey is learning that pain, like love, is simply something to surrender to. It’s a holy space we can enter with people only if we promise not to tidy up.”
111. “Here’s my hunch: Nobody’s secure, and nobody feels like she completely belongs. Those insecurities are just job hazards of being human. But some people dance anyway, and those people have more fun.”
112. “Love casts out fear. A woman who has recovered her true identity as a Love Warrior is the most powerful force on earth. All the darkness and shame and pain in the world can’t defeat her.”
112. “The warrior knows that her heartbreak is her map.”
113. “A boundary is the edge of one of our root beliefs about ourselves and the world.”
114. “My courage will come from knowing I can handle whatever I encounter there — because I was designed by my creator to not only survive pain and love but also to become whole inside it. I was born to do this. I am a warrior.”
115. “Life is alchemy, and emotions are the fire that turns me to gold. I will continue to become only if I resist extinguishing myself a million times a day. If I can sit in the fire of my own feelings, I will keep becoming.”
116. “I think one of the keys to happiness is accepting that I am never going to be perfectly happy.”
117. “People aren’t changing, after all. It’s just that for the first time, there’s enough freedom for people to stop changing who they are.”
118. “We forget how to know when we learned how to please.”
119. “Every truth is a kindness, even if it makes others uncomfortable. Every untruth is an unkindness, even if it makes others comfortable.”
120. “Every time you’re given a choice between disappointing someone else and disappointing yourself, your duty is to disappoint that someone else.”
121. “Healing is not the reward for those who lose the most or best.”
122. “We ask if our ideas make sense instead of assuming they do.”
123. “I think we are only bitter about other people’s joy in direct proportion to our commitment to keep joy from ourselves.”
124. “Perhaps imagination is not where we go to escape reality but where we go to remember it.”
125. “When a woman finally learns that pleasing the world is impossible, she becomes free to learn how to please herself.”
Glennon Doyle Motivational Quotes
126. “The epitome of womanhood is to lose one’s self completely. Because a very effective way to control women is to convince women to control themselves.”
127. “When we free our wild, that frees other people to free themselves too.”
128. “A woman becomes a responsible parents when she stops being an obedient daughter.”
129. “I stopped being a quiet peacekeeper and started being a loud peacemaker. My anger was good.”
130. “You are not a mess. You are a feeling person in a messy world.”
131. “Don’t let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.”
132. “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 other 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.”
133. “I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I’ve finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don’t have to hide it, and I don’t have to fix it. I’m not broken.”
134. “You do not have to agree with me to love me.”
135. “If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you’re good enough. Just do it. Be generous. Offer a gift to the world no one else can offer: yourself.”
136. “Grief is love’s souvenir. It’s our proof that we once loved. Grief is the receipt we wave in the air that says to the world: ‘Look! Love was once mine. I love well. Here is my proof that I paid the price.’”
137. “That’s the thing about parenting: anxious if you do, anxious if you don’t.”
138. “You are not crazy. You are goddamn cheetah.”
139. “If grace isn’t shocking and countercultural and scandalous and a little ridiculous, then it’s not grace.”
140. “Our boys are born with great potential for nurturing, caring, loving, and serving. Let’s stop training it out of them.”
141. “I guess women have to almost die before we give ourselves permission to live how we want.”
142. “You have to turn your head to see peripheral miracles.”
143. “We know we must decide whether to stay small, quiet, and uncomplicated or allow ourselves to grow as big, loud, and complex as we were made to be.”
144. “Despair says, ‘The heartbreak is too overwhelming. I am too sad and too small, and the world is too big. I cannot do it all, so I will do nothing.'”
Glennon Doyle Insightful Quotes
145. “The amazing thing about love and attention and encouragement and grace and success and joy is that these things are infinite. We get a new supply every single morning, and so we can give it away all day. We never, ever have to monitor the supply of others or grab or hoard.”
146. “I understand myself differently now. I was just a caged girl made for wide-open skies.”
147. The opposite of sensitive is not brave. It’s not brave to refuse to pay attention, to refuse to notice, to refuse to feel and know and imagine. The opposite of sensitive is insensitive, and that’s no badge of honor.
148. Then I built a life of my own. I did it by resurrecting the very parts of myself I was trained to mistrust, hide, and abandon in order to keep others comfortable: My emotions My intuition My imagination My courage Those are the keys to freedom. Those are who we are. Will we be brave enough to unlock ourselves? Will we be brave enough to set ourselves free?
149. What is better: uncomfortable truth or comfortable lies? Every truth is a kindness, even if it makes others uncomfortable. Every untruth is an unkindness, even if it makes others comfortable.
150. Anything or anyone I could lose by telling the truth was never mine anyway. I’m willing to lose anything that requires me to hide any part of myself.
151. I understand myself differently now. I was just a caged girl made for wide-open skies.
152. Can you imagine? The epitome of womanhood is to lose one’s self completely. That is the end goal of every patriarchal culture. Because a very effective way to control women is to convince women to control themselves.
153. What the world needs is more women who have quit fearing themselves and started trusting themselves What the world needs is masses of women who are entirely out of control.
154. I had been deceived. The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that there was something wrong with me.
155. Love is the opposite of control. Love demands trust.
156. Self-love means that I have a relationship with myself built on trust and loyalty. I trust myself to have my own back, so my allegiance is to the voice within.
157. We can either control our selves or love our selves, but we can’t do both.
158. I’ll abandon everyone else’s expectations of me before I’ll abandon myself. I’ll disappoint everyone else before I’ll disappoint myself. I’ll forsake all others before I’ll forsake myself. Me and myself: We are till death do us part.
159. “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.”
160. “The journey is learning that pain, like love, is simply something to surrender to. It’s a holy space we can enter with people only if we promise not to tidy up.”
161. “Life is brutal, but it’s also beautiful. Life is Brutiful.”
162. “Since brokenness is the way of folks, the only way to live peacefully is to forgive everyone constantly, including yourself.”
163. “Because love is not something for which to search or wait or hope or dream. Its simply something to do.”
164. “We weren’t born distrusting and fearing ourselves. That was part of our taming. We were taught to believe that who we are in our natural state is bad and dangerous.”
165. “That’s how you can tell that you’re filling yourself with the wrong things. You use a lot of energy, and in the end, you feel emptier and less comfortable than ever.”
166. “My courage will come from knowing I can handle whatever I encounter there — because I was designed by my creator to not only survive pain and love but also to become whole inside it. I was born to do this. I am a Warrior.”
167. “God approaches us in the disguise of other people.”
168. “Bring all of yourself to life. And if you’re told you’re ‘too much’ – smile and think: Maybe. Or maybe their capacity is too small?”
169. “You can never get enough of what you don’t need.”
170. “Stop making parenthood harder by pretending its not hard.”
171. “Rock bottom is the end of what wasn’t true enough. Begin again and build something Truer. Love, G”
172. “Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyway.”
173. “I used to numb my feelings and hide. Now I feel my feelings and share.”
174. “That’s how you can tell that you’re filling yourself with the wrong things. You use a lot of energy, and in the end, you feel emptier and less comfortable than ever.”
175. “We have to get back into our own bodies and figure out what the hell we want to do. And then the next step is doing it without explaining ourselves.”
176. “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.”
177. ”Maybe the yes comes before the readiness. Maybe you say yes and then you become equipped to handle whatever is about to happen.”
178. I notice we are envious of people who are already doing what we are made to do. If we use our envy as a sort of an arrow pointing us toward our destiny, that is a beautiful thing.
179. “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.”
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180. “I just think there are as many different versions of feminism as there are women. Feminism has to be defined as freedom.”
181. “Nobody is more ready to show up than anybody else. It’s just that some people show up before they’re perfect and before they’re ready.”
182. “Since the day I decided to become sober and a mother, I’ve been trying to become who I am supposed to be.”
183. “Your not a mess. You’re a deeply feeling person in a messy world.”
184. “I’ll abandon everyone else’s expectations of me before I’ll abandon myself. I’ll disappoint everyone else before I’ll disappoint myself. I’ll forsake all others before I’ll forsake myself. Me and myself: We are till death do us part.”
185. “Don’t let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.”
186. There is always more on its way – more opportunities, more ideas, more love. Know that there is enough. Know that you are enough. Know that you have enough.”
187. “I learned that I need to move toward the pain. Pain doesn’t go away. If you don’t embrace it, it will be passed onto someone else, usually those around you.”
188. “I had been deceived. The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that there was something wrong with me.”
189. “I think the way to get to any place worth going and any person worth knowing is love. Keep it simple today. I love you.”
190. “We can either control our selves or love our selves, but we can’t do both.”
191. “I see your pain and it is difficult and it is hard, but it was made just for you and I also see that your courage is greater than your fear.”
192. There is no greater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent
193. You are here to decide if your life, relationships, and world are true and beautiful enough for you.
194. “Every life is an unprecedented experiment. This life is mine alone. ”
195. “Heartbreak delivers your purpose.”
196. “Here’s to The Untamed: May we know them. May we raise them. May we love them. May we read them. May we elect them. May we be them.”
197. “Happiness is low expectations paired with a short-term memory problem. ”
198. “There is always more on its way – more opportunities, more ideas, more love. Know that there is enough. Know that you are enough. Know that you have enough. ” — Glennon Doyle
199. “Anger delivers our boundaries to us. Our boundaries deliver our beliefs to us.”
200. “Just do the next right thing, one thing at a time. ”
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