Run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Are you really not going to pursue your dream because you now have one more bill than you had before? Are you… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
"The Dream of a Common Language" by Adrienne Rich. I carried it the entire hike. On my first night, when I felt… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I happen to believe that America is dying of loneliness, that we, as a people, have bought into the false dream of… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there's no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“It’s just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Oh, the dream. The goddamned man + baby dream. Written by the High Commission on Heterosexual Love and Sexual Reproduction and practiced… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I happen to believe that America is dying of loneliness, that we, as a people, have bought into the false dream of… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“It was all unknown to me then, as I sat on that white bench on the day I finished my hike. Everything… — 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 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
“And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
“. . . 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 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
