All Cheryl Strayed Quotes
- I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a… Been
- He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered. End
- The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand named things in… All
- Wounded?” was all I could manage. “Yes,” said Pat. “And you’re wounded in the same place. That’s what fathers do if they don’t heal their… All
- …the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen to me, I… Bad
- It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of… Bad
- We like to pretend that our generous impulses come naturally. But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing… Beyond
- I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate. Ameliorate
- What’s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the commission… Block
- Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work.… Birthday
- ...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy. Arrangement
- I didn't feel sad or happy. I didn't feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I'd done wrong,… All
- He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life. All
- I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we… Allowed
- The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and parched earth. It… Black
- Of course you want someone special to love you. A majority of the people who write to me inquire about how they can get the… Advice
- My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love. Beats
- Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or… Across
- You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her… Absolute
- Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed to get anything… Actual
- Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally Id see their beauty and solemnity so plainly that I'd realize… Beauty
- But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got. All
- You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what… Any
- 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 say you are… 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