The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. It took me four years,… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
On my hike my brain was left to wander. That was often maddening because it was tedious and monotonous sometimes, but then… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
There is a path toward the light. The one that goes blink, blink, blink inside your chest when you know what you're… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
It's funny, it never occurred to me that a movie star would play me. But now that she [Reese Witherspoon] is playing… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a single dumbass… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know… — 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
![“It's funny, it never occurred to me that a movie star would play me. But now that she [Reese Witherspoon] is playing me, it's like, of course, it couldn't be anyone else! I don't know if you've seen pictures of Reese and me and Reese and my daughter Bobbi, who's named after my mother, and also…” quote by Cheryl Strayed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3a4/cheryl-strayed-605_children_it-s-funny-it-never-occurred-to-me-that_2597254.jpg)
