You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Sometimes those we forgive continue being the jackasses that they always were and we accept them while keeping them approximately three thousand… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“But as you are surely aware, forgiveness doesn’t mean you let the forgiven stomp all over you once again.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Sometimes those we forgive change their behavior to the extent that we can eventually be as close to them as we were… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have?” — 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
You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, 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 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
