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Them Quotes by Cheryl Strayed
- A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really…
- I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything…
- The most important thing for aspiring writers is for them to give themselves permission to be brave on the page, to write in the presence…
- The father’s job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse to ride into…
- We love and care for oodles of people, but only a few of them, if they died, would make us believe we could not continue…
- She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before she'd made her…
- 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…
- If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us…
- You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find…
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster