21 Quotes from the book “Untamed” to be strong

“When a woman finally learns that pleasing the world is impossible, she becomes free to learn how to please herself.” ― Glennon Doyle

“There is no glory except straight through your story.” ― Glennon Doyle

“When women lose themselves, the world loses its way.” ― Glennon Doyle

“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.” ― Glennon Doyle

“Whether you are brave or not cannot be judged by people on the outside. Sometimes being brave requires letting the crowd think you’re a coward. Sometimes being brave means letting everyone down but yourself.” ― Glennon Doyle

“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.” ― Glennon Doyle

“Brave means living from the inside out. Brave means, in every uncertain moment, turning inward, feeling for the Knowing, and speaking it out loud.” ― Glennon Doyle

“This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been.” ― Glennon Doyle

“Freedom is not being for or against an ideal, but creating your own existence from scratch.” ― Glennon Doyle

“I will not stay, not ever again – in a room or conversation or relationship or institution that requires me to abandon myself.” ― Glennon Doyle

“I am here to keep becoming truer, more beautiful versions of myself again and again forever.” ― Glennon Doyle

“I do not adjust myself to please the world, I am myself wherever I am, and I let the world adjust.” ― Glennon Doyle

“Our boys are born with great potential for nurturing, caring, loving, and serving. Let’s stop training it out of them.” ― Glennon Doyle

“Family is: Whether we’re falling or flying, we’re going to take care of each other through the whole damn ride.” ― Glennon Doyle

“Blessed are those brave enough to make things awkward, for they wake us up and move us forward.” ― Glennon Doyle

“Every truth is kindness, even if it makes others uncomfortable. Every untruth is an unkindness, even if it makes others comfortable.” ― Glennon Doyle

“Being fully human is not about feeling happy, it’s about feeling everything.” ― Glennon Doyle

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” ― Glennon Doyle

“Depression and anxiety are body snatchers that suck me out of myself so that I appear to be there but I’m really gone.” ― Glennon Doyle

“Suffering is what happens when we avoid pain and consequently miss our own becoming.” ― Glennon Doyle

“Anger delivers our boundaries to us. Our boundaries deliver our beliefs to us.” ― Glennon Doyle