Untamed

by Glennon Doyle

We are alive only to the degree to which we are willing to be annihilated. Our next life will always cost us this one.

I have entered the place I thought was death, and it has turned out to be life itself.

You’ll never be forced to hide or act in order to keep people if you don’t hide or act to get them.”

Our memo has led us to steal from our children the one thing that will allow them to become strong people: struggle.

Defensiveness is for people who are afraid that what they have can be taken from them. You are a grown-ass woman. You can have what you want. No one can take this from you. Not even Mom.

What if parenting became less about telling our children who they should be and more about asking them again and again forever who they already are?

My favorite song goes like this: “Jesus loves me, this I know, for he gave me Lexapro.”

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