All Cheryl Strayed Quotes
- If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will… All
- I receive a lot of letters like yours. Most go on in length, describing all sorts of maddening situations and communications in bewildered detail, but… All
- There are so many things to be tortured about, sweet pea. So many torturous things in this life. Don't let the man who doesn't love… Let
- Write like a motherfucker. Funny
- 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, it was important… Beautiful
- Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill. Bar
- Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the… Ached
- The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look… Allowing
- I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't… All
- There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish… Another Course
- Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it. Believe
- Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you,… Belongs
- The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we… Able
- Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here. Funny
- You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself. Becomes
- Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother—even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me.… All
- Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding Continuous
- Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich are not rich.… Along
- When you meet a man in the doorway of a Mexican restaurant who later kisses you while explaining that this kiss doesn’t “mean anything” because,… Anyone
- One Christmas at the very beginning of your twenties when your mother gives you a warm coat that she saved for months to buy, don’t… Beginning
- ...the other half of rising—the very half that makes rising necessary—is having been nailed to the cross. Been
- You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be… Bigness
- Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really… Acceptance
- But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first. Ethical
- I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. I didn't embrace the word as my new name because it defined negative aspects of my circumstances… Aspect