"But the reality is we often become our……" — Cheryl Strayed
"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."
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137 Quotes by Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed has 137 quotes on this site.
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Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing…
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The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long…
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You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation…
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I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.
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I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all,…
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It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so…
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The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding.
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Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.
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Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a…
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What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have?…
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A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about…
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The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.
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WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
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If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick…
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
— Irving Babbitt
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
— Felix Adler
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning…
— Aneurin Bevan
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A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.
— Vinoba Bhave
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Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human…
— John Boehner
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The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course,…
— David Bowie
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace,…
— Omar N. Bradley
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Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word…
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our…
— Albert Einstein
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human…
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