Believe Quotes by Cheryl Strayed

12 Believe quotes by Cheryl Strayed

All Believe quotes Cheryl Strayed’s page

Cheryl Strayed’s 12 raw observations on belief cut straight to the core of what it means to trust yourself, offering a concise yet resonant starting point for anyone seeking authenticity.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

…the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen…

Cheryl Strayed

Image

Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness.

Cheryl Strayed

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

Image

If you want to read anything nasty about me, just go to the backpacker websites. There's this kind of elitist branch where…

Cheryl Strayed

Image

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

Cheryl Strayed

Image

The people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity.

Cheryl Strayed

Image

You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play…

Cheryl Strayed

Image

“There is no cure except to live the hell out of our lives, to take it apart, to put it back together,…

Cheryl Strayed

Image

If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that…

Cheryl Strayed

Image

We love and care for oodles of people, but only a few of them, if they died, would make us believe we…

Cheryl Strayed

Image

A lot of artists give up because it's just too damn hard to go on making art in a culture that by…

Cheryl Strayed

Image

Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich…

Cheryl Strayed

Image

Other authors on Believe

More by Cheryl Strayed

“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

Image

“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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

Cheryl Strayed

Image

“And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard.”

Cheryl Strayed

Image

“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

Image

“. . . there was the actual doing it, quickly followed by the grim realization of what it meant to do it, followed by…

Cheryl Strayed

Image

“The sky didn't wonder where it was.”

Cheryl Strayed

Image

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

Image

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

Image

“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

Image