100+ Motivational Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes (Author of Untamed)

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Updated: April 18th, 2022

Glennon Doyle Melton is an American writer and activist. She is best known for her #1 New York Times bestsellers Carry On, Untamed, Warrior, and Love Warrior.

Doyle struggled with early addiction and eating disorders. However, she has been very vocal about her mental health journey and spoke about her time in the mental hospital in her TEDx talk to help other people overcome mental illness.

With her blog Momastery she began her online writing journey in 2009 and constantly worked on her craft ever since. It was chosen to be a part of Oprah's Book Club. Her journey did not stop there as she also reached a milestone of selling more than 2 million copies of her book named "Untamed".

We've put together an incredible collection of the best Glennon Doyle Melton quotes for you to read.

Here they are:

100+ Motivational Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes (Author of Untamed)

Inspiring Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes On Women

"Freedom is not being for or against an ideal, but creating your own existence from scratch."

"Rebellion is as much of a cage as obedience is. They both mean living in reaction to someone else’s way instead of forging your own."

"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."

"Selfless women make for an efficient society but not a beautiful, true, or just one."

"The most revolutionary thing a woman can do: the next right thing, one thing at a time, without asking permission or offering explanation."

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

"Maybe Eve was never meant to be our warning. Maybe she was meant to be our model. Own your wanting. Eat the apple. Let it burn."

"Every time you pretend to be less than you are, you steal permission from other women to exist fully."

"The blueprints of heaven are etched in the deep desires of women."

"The deep desires of women are precious. They are a magic that has the capacity to lift every person to their greatest most loving potential."

"I became a writer so I could stay at home alone in my pajamas, reading and writing about the importance of human connection and community. It is an almost perfect existence."

"I could imagine the kind of love in which I was fully seen, known, and cherished."

"We can choose to be perfect and admired or to be real and loved."

"A woman becomes a responsible parent when she stops being an obedient daughter."

"Being fully human is not about feeling happy, it’s about feeling everything."

"You can’t lose people who never even found you."

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

"It is wild to let others be wild."

"What if the call of motherhood is not to be a martyr but to be a model?"

"Why does a woman’s neutral face mean anger, while a man’s neutral face means neutral?"

Powerful Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes On Life

"We are so afraid of dying, also of living."

"I remain compelled by the Jesus story. Not as history meant to reveal what happened long ago, but as poetry meant to illuminate a revolutionary idea powerful enough to heal and free humanity now."

"A boundary is the edge of one of our root beliefs about ourselves and the world."

"I decided that if I kept doing the 'right' thing, I would spend my life following someone else's directions instead of my own."

"We ask if our ideas make sense instead of assuming they do."

"I’m willing to lose anything that requires me to hide any part of myself."

"Judgment is self-abandonment."

"Just do the next right thing, one thing at a time."

"People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don’t need help."

“Expecting less than true friendship in my most important relationship is so depressing.”

"God approaches us in the disguise of other people."

"Being human is not hard because you’re doing it wrong, it’s hard because you’re doing it right."

"You are here to decide if your life, relationships, and world are true and beautiful enough for you."

"It’s okay to feel all of the stuff you’re feeling. You’re just becoming human again."

"Healing is not the reward for those who love the most or best."

"We only control what we don’t trust."

"Numbness keeps us from becoming."

"Perhaps imagination is not where we go to escape reality but where we go to remember it."

"We all want purpose and connection. Tell me what breaks your heart, and I’ll point you toward both. "

"Who else but a sibling travels with you from the start of life's path to the bitter end?"

"Life is a quest to find an unfindable thing. We are put here needing something that doesn't exist here."

"This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been."

"Every beautiful thing in life comes out of the mess."

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."

"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."

"If I am living bravely, my entire life will become a million deaths and rebirths."

"There is no greater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent."

"Blessed are those brave enough to make things awkward, for they wake us up and move us forward."

"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."

"The change that happens to people who really sit in their pain -- whether it's a sliver of envy lasting an hour or a canyon of grief lasting decades -- it's revolutionary. "

"Courage says, “I will not let the fact that I cannot do everything keep me from doing what I can."

"I do not want my children to become people who abandon themselves to please the crowd."

"My children do not need me to save them. My children need to watch me save myself."

"The anxiety that makes it difficult to exist in my own skin also makes it difficult to exist in a world where so may people are in so much pain - and that makes me a relentless activist."

"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."

"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."

"To be brave is to forsake all others to be true to yourself."

"All the devil has to do to win is convince you he’s God."

"Reading is my inhale and writing is my exhale."

Favorite Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes On Love

"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."

"The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love."

"I think I love my people more than normal people love their people. My love is so overwhelming and terrifying and uncomfortable and complicated that I need to hide from it."

"When you write your truth, it is a love offering to the world because it helps us feel braver and less alone."

"Love is the opposite of control. Love demands trust."

"Self-love means that I have a relationship with myself built on trust and loyalty."

"Because love is not something for which to search or wait or hope or dream. It's simply something to do."

"They look because she's lovely but they stare because she is love."

"I have decided that I want to be in love with a person, not a feeling. I want to be found in love, not lost in it. I’d rather exist than disappear."

"Love is not a victory march; it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah."

"His body fills my arms and I think, Oh. So this is what my arms are for."

"Maybe there is no way for love to fail because the eventual result of all love is New Life."

"Nothing you can ever do will make me love you more, and nothing you can ever do will make me love you less."

"Trusting people is terrifying. Maybe if love is not a little scary and out of our control, then it is not love at all."

"We don’t understand why we hurt those we love."

"Grief is love’s souvenir. It’s our proof that we once loved."

"I think one of the keys to happiness is accepting that I am never going to be perfectly happy."

"I wondered if joy had as much to teach me as pain did. If so, I wanted to know."

"Be careful with the stories you tell about yourself."

"There is another kind of pain that comes not from losing beautiful things but from never even trying for them."

"What if pain – like love – is just a place where brave people visit?"

Famous Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes On Confidence

"It turned out that what I needed most was inside the one place I’d been running from my entire life: pain."

"I think we are only bitter about other people’s joy in direct proportion to our commitment to keep joy from ourselves."

"You can never get enough of what you don’t need."

"We forgot how to know when we learned how to please."

"If I want my world to be less vicious, then I must become more gentle."

"Faith is not a club to belong to, but a current to surrender to."

"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."

"We betray and we are betrayed. We lie and we are lied to."

"I cannot be in the moment because I am too afraid of what the next moment will bring. I have to be ready."

"Every time you’re given a choice between disappointing someone else and disappointing yourself, your duty is to disappoint that someone else."

"I think one of the keys to happiness is accepting that I am never going to be perfectly happy."

"It’s nearly impossible to blaze one’s own path while following in someone else’s footsteps."

"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."

"We are at war with our bodies, our minds, our souls."

"The thing that gets me thinking and questioning most deeply is a leader who warns me not to think or question."

"When grief rings: Surrender. There is nothing else to do. The delivery is utter transformation."

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

The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one.”

"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."

"Every truth is a kindness, even if it makes others uncomfortable. Every untruth is an unkindness, even if it makes others comfortable."

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