"Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking……" — Cheryl Strayed
"Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yard on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling it until the entire sweater unraveled into a pile of string. Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost."
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Cheryl Strayed
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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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More Descending Quotes
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the…
— Saint Augustine
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with…
— Daniel Boone
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To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history…
— Gretel Ehrlich
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Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But it's the wrestler who can put the fatigue out of his mind and break through the "wall," like a…
— Unknown Author
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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
— Amy Lowell
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The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the…
— Aeschylus
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.…
— Martin Luther
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.
— Winston Churchill
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