"My mother's death put me in touch with……" — Cheryl Strayed
"My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially."
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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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