"Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed……" — Cheryl Strayed
"Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid."
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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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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm…
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Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck…
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Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
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I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't…
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As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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