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 Copy Share Image
…the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share 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 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
“There is no cure except to live the hell out of our lives, to take it apart, to put it back together,… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 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
