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Love Quotes by Cheryl Strayed

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Cheryl Strayed writes that love begins with attention, the first and final act that gives life meaning. She talks about love as a nutrient we need to survive and as a richness that makes us feel wealthy. She also urges us to be brave, authentic, and to give love without trying to solve everything.

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“A beloved daughter who now spent holidays alone.”

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I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.

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But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

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Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.

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The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding.

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“Aside from the people I love, there is little I value more than my education.”

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“You go on by finding a channel for your love and another for your rage.”

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What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

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“If love were an animal, what species would it be and could you train it? Love would be two animals: a hummingbird…

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The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more…

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“They realized that, in fact, the lie wasn't safe. That it threatened their existence more profoundly than the truth did.”

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“He felt like a brother of mine, but not at all like my actual brother. He seemed like someone I'd always know…

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“No one can touch that love or alter it or take it away from you. Your love for your son belongs only…

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“There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the…

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“Very nice," said Rick after a while. "Very nice," he repeated, with more emphasis the second time. "What is?" I asked, turning…

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“But now that she was dying, I knew everything. My mother was in me already. Not just the parts of her that…

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“You don’t need a reason to leave. Wanting to leave is enough. Leaving doesn’t mean you’re incapable of real love or that…

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We are savages insides. We all want to be the chosen, the beloved, the esteemed. There isn't a person reading this who…

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“She understands that attention is the first and final act of love, and that the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement…

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“Bring the man you aspire to be, the one who already has the love he longs for. Play every piece of yourself…

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“To witness the way they leaned into each other and laced their fingers together and tugged each other tenderly down the paved…

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“We need books, and Cheryl’s books in particular, because we are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the…

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“My love for him was indisputable, but my allegiance to him wasn’t. We were no longer married, and as I settled alongside…

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Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother—even after all these years. How powerfully I carry…

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“Oh, the dream. The goddamned man + baby dream. Written by the High Commission on Heterosexual Love and Sexual Reproduction and practiced…

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“I was twenty-two, the same age she was when she'd been pregnant with me. She was going to leave my life at…

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“Withholding love distorts reality. It makes the people who do the withholding ugly and small-hearted. It makes the people from whom things…

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“Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as…

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“I lay down in the mother ash dirt among the crocuses and told her it was okay. That I'd surrendered. That since…

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“The people who squawk the loudest about such things have almost never had to get over anything. Or at least not any…

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Of course you want someone special to love you. A majority of the people who write to me inquire about how they…

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I can't say when you'll get love or how you'll find it or even promise you that you will. I can only…

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“One ends a romantic relationship while remaining a compassionate friend by being kind above all else. By explaining one’s decision to leave…

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“We were her kids, her comrades, the end of her and the beginning. We took turns riding shotgun with her in the…

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“I was her daughter, but more. I was Karen, Cheryl, Leif. Karen Cheryl Leif. KarenCherylLeif. Our names blurred into one in my…

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“We aren't poor," my mother said, again and again. "Because we're rich in love.”

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“We have to be whole people to find whole love, even if we have to make it up for a while.”

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I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to…

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You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of…

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My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love,…

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“The sky didn't wonder where it was.”

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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…

“I never believed the boys were angry. I believed they were hurt and anger was the safest manifestation of their sorrow. It was the…

“It’s wrong that this is required of you. It’s wrong that your son died. It will always be wrong.”

“Your ultimatum is simple. It’s fair. And it’s stating your own intentions, not what you hope theirs will be.”

“We aren't poor," my mother said, again and again. "Because we're rich in love.”