Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“They realized that, in fact, the lie wasn't safe. That it threatened their existence more profoundly than the truth did.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“There are some things you can’t understand yet. Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding.” — 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
“The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in a life.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I'd walk and think about my entire life. I'd find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“He felt like a brother of mine, but not at all like my actual brother. He seemed like someone I'd always know… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“To know that seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water was enough. That it was everything. It was my life--… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. My whole life sort of ended… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“And the fuck is yours too, WTF. That question does not apply 'to everything every day.' If it does, you’re wasting your… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Adrienne Rich … did not die a woman who denied that her wounds came from the same source as her power. In… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Her death had obliterated that. It had obliterated me. It had cut me short at the very height of my youthful arrogance.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The only way I've been able to stay informed without letting fury rule my life is to channel my rage into something… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The writing life doesn't move in a straight line. I've had successes and rejections all along the way, at every stage of… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“If I could go back in time I'd make the same choice in a snap. And yet, there remains my sister life.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Doing what one wants to do because one wants to do it is hard for a lot of people, but I think… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I lay down in the mother ash dirt among the crocuses and told her it was okay. That I'd surrendered. That since… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
So much of what I've learned, so much of what's good in my life, was learned because something bad happened, or from… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“What this requires of us is that we don’t get tangled up in the living, even when we in fact feel woefully… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“When I say you don’t have to explain what you’re going to do with your life, I’m not suggesting you lounge around… — 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… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“That job and the fifteen others I had before I graduated college were my own, personal “educational opportunities.” They changed my life… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“He said, “Don’t get me wrong. I want to hear everything about your life. But I want you to know that you… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Being so alone and so silent for so long gave me the opportunity to see how our brains actually work. I think… — 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
![“Adrienne Rich … did not die a woman who denied that her wounds came from the same source as her power. In fact, she spent her life making power from those wounds [but] Marie Curie… didn’t have that luxury — she had to deny that in order to be who she was in her time. But we don’t. And I think so…” quote by Cheryl Strayed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bf5/cheryl-strayed-605_life_adrienne-rich-did-not-die-a-woman-who-de_668553.jpg)
