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Top 500 Cheryl Strayed Quotes (2025 Update)

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”

1. “Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Featured in: Failure Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “It was my life – like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.”

2. “It was my life – like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Featured in: Experience Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Identity Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Moving Quotes

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Be brave enough to break your own heart.”

3. “Be brave enough to break your own heart.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Self-Love Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Broken Heart Quotes, Heartbreak Quotes

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “My mom said there’s a sunrise and a sunset every day and you can choose to be there or not. You can put yourself in the way of beauty.”

4. “My mom said there’s a sunrise and a sunset every day and you can choose to be there or not. You can put yourself in the way of beauty.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Featured in: Meaning Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Contentment Quotes, Sunshine Quotes

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.”

5. “Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Featured in: Self-Love Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes, Joy Quotes, Quotes About Ideas

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “How wild it was, to let it be.”

6. “How wild it was, to let it be.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.”

7. “You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Grateful Quotes, Strong Women Quotes

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.”

8. “You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Featured in: Empathy Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Love Is Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!”

9. “Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!”

— Cheryl Strayed

Featured in: Monday Morning Quotes, Happy Friday Quotes, Strong Women Quotes, Monday Quotes, Friday Quotes

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “I’ll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”

10. “I’ll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Featured in: Sad Quotes About Life, Longing Quotes, Life Quotes for Women

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.”

11. “I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It’s up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.”

12. “Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It’s up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women, Stay Strong Quotes, Don't Give Up Quotes

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don’t have to take it in. You don’t have to turn it into a big psychodrama about your worth. That behavior so often is not even about you. Don’t own other people’s crap.”

13. “If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don’t have to take it in. You don’t have to turn it into a big psychodrama about your worth. That behavior so often is not even about you. Don’t own other people’s crap.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Jump high and hard with intention and heart.”

14. “Jump high and hard with intention and heart.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Featured in: Motivational Quotes for Women

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “The place of true healing is a fierce place. It’s a giant place. It’s a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.”

15. “The place of true healing is a fierce place. It’s a giant place. It’s a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Featured in: Recovery Quotes, Healing Quotes

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”

16. “You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Featured in: Real Quotes, Love You Quotes, Moving Quotes

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.”

17. “Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “But if I could go back in time, I wouldn’t do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things that got me here?”

18. “But if I could go back in time, I wouldn’t do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things that got me here?”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.”

19. “Run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.”

20. “I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here.”

21. “Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”

22. “Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “The only way out of a hole is to climb out.”

23. “The only way out of a hole is to climb out.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Acceptance is a small quiet room.”

24. “Acceptance is a small quiet room.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.”

25. “Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.”

26. “I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.”

— Cheryl Strayed

$Cheryl Strayed Quote: “The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.”$

27. “The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Featured in: Risk-Taking Quotes

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don’t, it’s a living death. You’re just standing in one place dying.”

28. “You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don’t, it’s a living death. You’re just standing in one place dying.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn’t long before I actually wasn’t afraid.”

29. “Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn’t long before I actually wasn’t afraid.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “But compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love that you’ve got.”

30. “But compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love that you’ve got.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “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 battle when it’s necessary to do so. If you don’t get that from your father, you have to teach yourself.”

31. “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 battle when it’s necessary to do so. If you don’t get that from your father, you have to teach yourself.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...”

32. “Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...”

— Cheryl Strayed

Featured in: Quotes About Stories

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn’t have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?”

33. “What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn’t have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.”

34. “The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don’t always do the right thing on our way to rightness.”

35. “Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don’t always do the right thing on our way to rightness.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “So release yourself from that. Don’t be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word ‘love’ to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.”

36. “So release yourself from that. Don’t be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word ‘love’ to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding.”

37. “Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth that it was true, I said it anyway: No one.”

38. “I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth that it was true, I said it anyway: No one.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “You get to define the terms of your life.”

39. “You get to define the terms of your life.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “It’s a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.”

40. “It’s a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “I didn’t feel sad or happy. I didn’t feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I’d done wrong, in getting myself here, I’d done right.”

41. “I didn’t feel sad or happy. I didn’t feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I’d done wrong, in getting myself here, I’d done right.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you’re talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.”

42. “The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you’re talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “There’s no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.”

43. “There’s no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know and actualize who we could be. The only difference is the distance of the leap.”

44. “We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know and actualize who we could be. The only difference is the distance of the leap.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Featured in: Distance Quotes

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it’s one thing and one thing only: it’s doing what you have to do.”

45. “Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it’s one thing and one thing only: it’s doing what you have to do.”

— Cheryl Strayed

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Cheryl Strayed Quote: “I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.”

46. “I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?”

47. “What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Grief is tremendous, but love is bigger. You are grieving because you loved truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of death. Allowing this into your consciousness will not keep you from your suffering, but it will help you survive the next day.”

48. “Grief is tremendous, but love is bigger. You are grieving because you loved truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of death. Allowing this into your consciousness will not keep you from your suffering, but it will help you survive the next day.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding.”

49. “You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quote: “If there’s one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it’s that you can’t fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It’s a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.”

50. “If there’s one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it’s that you can’t fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It’s a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.”

— Cheryl Strayed

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