If you have faced difficulties in life, these Glennon Doyle quotes will motivate you to persevere and have a better life for yourself.
Glennon Doyle’s Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a rousing wake-up call.
It is the story of how one woman discovered that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but rather one who shows them how to live fully.
Untamed is the story of navigating divorce, forming a new blended family with Abby Wambach, and discovering that the brokenness or wholeness of a family is determined by each member’s ability to bring her whole self to the table, not by the structure.
And it’s the story of how each of us can start to trust ourselves enough to set boundaries, make peace with our bodies, honor our anger and heartbreak, and unleash our truest, wildest instincts, so that we can finally look in the mirror and say, “There She Is.”
We hope these Glennon Doyle quotes inspire you to learn life’s lessons and carry on, no matter what trials you may be facing in life.
Glennon Doyle’s Untamed: 50 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.
Glennon Doyle Cheetah Quote
Untamed starts off with a bang with an iconic cheetah story. Here’s the famous Glennon Doyle cheetah quote: You are not crazy. You are a goddamn cheetah.
Glennon Doyle Disappointment Quote
“Every time you’re given a choice between disappointing someone else and disappointing yourself, your duty is to disappoint that someone else. Your job throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself.”
Everyday Application: Self-love can mean a variety of things, but this is a great way to look at it. You can cultivate this level of trust and loyalty by doing a few small things every day.
First, stop comparing yourself to other people. Second, don’t be concerned about what other people think.
Then you can move on to more important things like confronting your fears, recognizing where your value lies (and where it does not), and being gentle with yourself when you make mistakes.
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