Juliet’s Reviews > Untamed > Status Update

“If you are uncomfortable, in deep pain, angry, yearning, confused, you don’t have a problem. You have a life. Being human is not hard because you’re doing it wrong; it’s hard because you’re doing it right.” This might be favorite Glennon Doyle quote of all time because she puts into words exactly how my soul feels trying to navigate this life.

“There is a life meant for you that is truer than the one you’re living. But in order to have it, you will have to forge it yourself. You will have to create on the outside what you are imagining on the inside. Only you can bring it forth. And it will cost you everything.”

“It doesn’t see like being alive is as hard for other people as it is for me. It just feels like there’s some secret to life that I don’t know, like I’m doing it all wrong.”

“You’re not doing life wrong; you’re doing it right. If there’s any secret you’re missing, it’s that doing it right is just really hard. Feeling all your feelings is hard…the secret is that you’re doing it right.”

“I was filled with electric thunder, simmering water, fiery red and gold, but all I had to do was smile and nod and the world would take me for easy breezy blue. Sometimes I wondered if I wasn’t the only one using her skin to contain herself. Maybe we are all fire wrapped in skin, trying to look cool.”

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

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