#thelitbit // Untamed

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

To get in tune with yourself and stay true to all that is within you. To question what you believe and why you believe it, especially if it’s something that makes you go against your soul. It’s then, that you find your freedom.

Loved this memoir by Glennon Doyle, and happy beginning of Women’s History Month!

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Noteworthy excerpts:

"We forgot how to know when we learned how to please. This is why we live hungry."

"I told myself: Maybe in another life. Isn’t that interesting? As if I had more than one."

"First the pain, then the waiting, then the rising. All of our suffering comes when we try to get to our resurrection without allowing ourselves to be crucified first. There is no glory except straight through your story."

"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."

"We can throw out all the rules and write our own. We can build our lives from the inside out. We can stop asking what the world wants from us and instead ask ourselves what we want for our world."

"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."

"We are alive only to the degree to which we are willing to be annihilated. Our next life will always cost us this one. If we are truly alive, we are constantly losing who we just were, what we just built, what we just believed, what we just knew to be true."

"We do not need more selfless women. What we need right now is more women who have detoxed themselves so completely from the world’s expectations that they are full of nothing but themselves...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."

"The goal is to surrender, constantly, who I just was in order to become who this next moment calls me to be...I cannot hold too tightly to any riverbank. I must let go of the shore in order to travel deeper and see farther."

"Your job, throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself."

“Every life is an unprecedented experiment. This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been. There is no map. We are all pioneers.”

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