“The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in a life.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of love.” — 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
“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
“The question isn’t whether you should stay or go. The question is: How would your life be transformed if you chose to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Very nice," said Rick after a while. "Very nice," he repeated, with more emphasis the second time. "What is?" I asked, turning… — 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
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
There are so many things to be tortured about, sweet pea. So many torturous things in this life. Don't let the man… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“But now that she was dying, I knew everything. My mother was in me already. Not just the parts of her that… — 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… — 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
I had to change. I had to change was the thought that drove me in those months of planning. Not into a… — 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
“And in the meanwhile, cultivate an understanding of a bunch of the other things that the best, sanest people of the planet… — 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
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
I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was,… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I didn't know how living outdoors and sleeping on the ground in a tent each night and walking alone through the wilderness… — 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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to… — 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
