Glennon Doyle is an author and activist committed to empowering women. Her New York Times best sellers include Love Warrior, Untamed and We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions. In addition to her writing, Glennon co-hosts the hugely popular podcast We Can Do Hard Things with her wife, Abby Wambach, and sister, Amanda Doyle.

Read on for some of the most influential and uplifting words from Glennon Doyle's bestselling memoir, Untamed.

On Resilience & Courage

“Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right.”

“The braver I am, the luckier I get.”

“If you are uncomfortable—in deep pain, angry, yearning, confused—you don’t have a problem, you have a life.”

“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.”

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

“We can do hard things.”

“If you can’t beat fear, just do it scared.”

“Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways.”

On Identity & Self-Love

“Be careful with the stories you tell about yourself.”

“We forgot how to know when we learned how to please.”

“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.”

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

“To be brave is to forsake all others to be true to yourself.”

“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that there was something wrong with me.”

“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.”

“Human qualities are not gendered. What is gendered is permission to express certain traits.”

On Growth & Discovery

“Every life is an unprecedented experiment.”

“We are all bilingual. We speak the language of indoctrination, but our native tongue is the language of imagination.”

“Because once we feel, know, and dare to imagine more for ourselves, we cannot unfeel, unknow, or unimagine. There is no going back.”

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

“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?”

On Vulnerability, Grief & Healing

“I did not know that I was supposed to feel everything. I thought I was supposed to feel happy.”

“It is a blessing to know a free woman. Sometimes she will stop by and hold up a mirror for you. She will help you remember who you are.”

“Grief is love’s souvenir. It’s our proof that we once loved. … Here is my proof that I paid the price.”

“Life is alchemy, and emotions are the fire that turns me to gold.”

“I will not let the fact that I cannot do everything keep me from doing what I can.”

And my personal, all-time favorite Glennon Doyle quote....

"And now that we don’t have to be good, we can be free."