Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“They realized that, in fact, the lie wasn't safe. That it threatened their existence more profoundly than the truth did.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I walked all those miles, I learned all those lessons. It's as if my new life was the gift I got at… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“There are some things you can’t understand yet. Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of being. Your life will be a hundred times better for… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of love.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
There are so many things to be tortured about, sweet pea. So many torturous things in this life. Don't let the man… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The question isn’t whether you should stay or go. The question is: How would your life be transformed if you chose to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Very nice," said Rick after a while. "Very nice," he repeated, with more emphasis the second time. "What is?" I asked, turning… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Nobody’s going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you’re rich or poor, out of money… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. My whole life sort of ended… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“It hadn't occurred to me that my mother would die. Until she was dying, the thought had never entered my mind. She… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“And it was true. I always would have guessed it, even all the time that I feared it would never happen. Being… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Adrienne Rich … did not die a woman who denied that her wounds came from the same source as her power. In… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“There are some things you can’t understand yet. Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding. It’s good you’ve worked hard… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I was twenty-two, the same age she was when she'd been pregnant with me. She was going to leave my life at… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Her death had obliterated that. It had obliterated me. It had cut me short at the very height of my youthful arrogance.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I had to change. I had to change was the thought that drove me in those months of planning. Not into a… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“If I could go back in time I'd make the same choice in a snap. And yet, there remains my sister life.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Doing what one wants to do because one wants to do it is hard for a lot of people, but I think… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I lay down in the mother ash dirt among the crocuses and told her it was okay. That I'd surrendered. That since… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in a life.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I'd walk and think about my entire life. I'd find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous. — 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
![“Adrienne Rich … did not die a woman who denied that her wounds came from the same source as her power. In fact, she spent her life making power from those wounds [but] Marie Curie… didn’t have that luxury — she had to deny that in order to be who she was in her time. But we don’t. And I think so…” quote by Cheryl Strayed](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bf5/cheryl-strayed-605_life_adrienne-rich-did-not-die-a-woman-who-de_668553.png)
