“Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I knew that if I allowed fear to over take me, my journey was doomed.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I’m not afraid, I said, calling up my old mantra to calm my mind. But it didn’t feel the same as it… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the thing you fear the most in your relationship turns out to be the thing that brings you and your partner… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“You’re generally less humble in that decade than you’ll ever be and this lack of humility is oddly mixed with insecurity and… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The most important thing for aspiring writers is for them to give themselves permission to be brave on the page, to write… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
When going on a date with someone they met online, the number-one fear that straight women have is going on a date… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Fear of being alone is not a good reason to stay. Leaving this man you’ve been with for six years won’t be… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I can't say when you'll get love or how you'll find it or even promise you that you will. I can only… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I actually don't have any fear of people reading Wild and going out unprepared. Because one of the best things that ever… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Being near Tom and Doug at night kept me from having to say to myself I am not afraid whenever I heard… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The most fascinating thing to me about your letter is that buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing,… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“It was a deal I’d made with myself months before and the only thing that allowed me to hike alone. I knew… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The clamor of 'What have I gotten myself into?' was a mighty shout. It could not be drowned out. The only possible… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“She understands that attention is the first and final act of love, and that the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
“The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in life. For some of you, those things have already happened. Whatever happens to you… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
Of course you want someone special to love you. A majority of the people who write to me inquire about how they can get… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
“Don’t listen to those people who suggest you should be “over” your daughter’s death by now. The people who squawk the loudest about such… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
“. . . there was the actual doing it, quickly followed by the grim realization of what it meant to do it, followed by… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
“I never believed the boys were angry. I believed they were hurt and anger was the safest manifestation of their sorrow. It was the… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
“It’s wrong that this is required of you. It’s wrong that your son died. It will always be wrong.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
“Your ultimatum is simple. It’s fair. And it’s stating your own intentions, not what you hope theirs will be.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
“We aren't poor," my mother said, again and again. "Because we're rich in love.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
