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Cheryl Strayed Quote: “People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there’s no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just have to push forward. You have to follow your vision and hope for the best. You have to write for love.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he’d become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “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. Insisting on this story was a form of mind control, but for the most part, it worked. Every time I heard a sound of unknown origin or felt something horrible cohering in my imagination, I pushed it away. I simply did not let myself become afraid. Fear begets fear. Power begets power.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Nobody’s going to do your life for you.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “The body knows. When your heart sinks. When you feel sick to your gut. When something blossoms in your chest. When your brain gloriously pops. That’s your body telling you the One True Thing. Listen to it.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “I never got to be in the driver’s seat of my own life,” she’d wept to me once, in the days after she learned she was going to die. “I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I’ve always been someone’s daughter or mother or wife. I’ve never just been me.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Every now and then I could see myself – truly see myself – and a sentence would come to me, thundering like a god into my head, and as I saw myself then in front of that tarnished mirror what came was the woman with the hole in her heart.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “What is one boot without the other boot? It is nothing. It is useless, an orphan forevermore, and I could take no mercy on it.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Run toward the darkness, sweet peas, and shine.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “And so I walked on.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “So on one hand, because the wilderness was familiar to me, it really helped me be brave. But it still was scary sometimes. I had to say to myself: “Chances are, you’re not going to be mauled by a bear.””
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “That was my father: the man who hadn’t fathered me. It amazed me every time. Again and again and again. Of all the wild things, his failure to love me the way he should have had always been the wildest thing of all.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Art isn’t anecdote. It’s the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “We do not have the right to feel helpless. We must help ourselves. After destiny has delivered what it delivers, we are responsible for our lives.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “My solo three-month hike on the Pacific Crest Trail had many beginnings. There was the first, flip decision to do it, followed by the second, more serious decision to actually do it, and then the long third beginning, composed of weeks of shopping and packing and preparing to do it. There was the quitting my job as a waitress and finalizing my divorce and selling almost everything I owned and saying goodbye to my friends and visiting my mother’s grave one last time.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “There’s a crazy lady living in your head. I hope you’ll be comforted to hear that you’re not alone. Most of us have an invisible inner terrible someone who says all sorts of nutty stuff that has no basis in truth.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “It was only after her death that I realized who she was: the apparently magical force at the center of our family who’d kept us all invisibly spinning in the powerful orbit around her.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “You go on by finding a channel for your love and another for your rage.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “What’s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “A glorious something else awaits.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “And every last one of us can do better than give up.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it’s how I earned a living.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Saying it’s hard is ultimately a justification to do what seems like the easiest thing to do – have the affair, stay at that horrible job, end a friendship over a slight, keep loving someone who treats you terribly.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “When going on a date with someone they met online, the number-one fear that straight women have is going on a date with a serial killer. The number-one fear straight men have is going on a date with a fat woman. That says everything.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Eight of the ten things you have decided about yourself at the age of twenty will, over time, prove to be false. The other two things will prove to be so true that you’ll look back in twenty years and howl.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Withholding distorts reality. It makes the people who do the withholding ugly and small-hearted. It makes the people from whom things are withheld crazy and desperate and incapable of knowing what they actually feel. So release yourself from that. Don’t be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “I’d stopped being grandiose. I’d lowered myself to the notion that the absolute only thing that mattered was getting that extra beating heart out of my chest. Which meant I had to write my book. My very possibly mediocre book. My very possibly never-going-to-be-published book. My absolutely nowhere-in-league-with-the-writers-I’d-admired-so-much-that-I-practically-memorized-their-sentences book.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “The truth was, in spite of all that, she’d been a spectacular mom. I knew it as I was growing up. I knew it in the days that she was dying. I knew it now. And I knew that was something. That it was a lot. I had plenty of friends who had moms who – no matter how long they lived – would never give them the all-encompassing love that my mother had given me.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “It seemed like a long time and also it seemed like my trip had just begun, like I was only now digging into whatever it was I was out here to do. Like I was still the woman with the hole in her heart, but the hole had gotten ever so infinitesimally smaller.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “The good things aren’t a movie. There isn’t enough to make a reel. The good things are a poem, barely longer than a haiku. There.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. I didn’t embrace the word as my new name because it defined negative aspects of my circumstances or life, but because even in my darkest days – those very days in which I was naming myself – I saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn’t have known before.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Allow your acceptance of that to be a transformative experience. You do that by simply looking it square in the face and then moving on. You don’t have to move fast or far. You can go just an inch. You can mark your progress breath by breath.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I’ve always been someone’s daughter or mother or wife. I’ve never just been me.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light,” I.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “You can’t replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Fear of being alone is not a good reason to stay.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Jean-Paul Sartre famously said that “hell is other people,” which is true enough, but truer still is hell is other people’s boyfriends.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “There are stories you’ll learn if you’re strong enough to travel there. One of them might cure you.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Romantic love is not a competitive sport.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Our most meaningful relationships are often those that continued beyond the juncture at which they came closest to ending.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “When you say you experience my writing as sacred, what you are touching is the divine place within me that is my mother. Sugar is the temple I built in my obliterated place.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “It was the thing that had grown in me that I’d remember years later, when my life became unmoored by sorrow. The thing that would make me believe that hiking the Pacific Crest Trail was my way back to the person I used to be. On.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Addiction is a tunnel that wakes you up in the middle of the night. Everything else happens out here in the light.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Will you do it later or will you do it now?”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “And you may not be able to see this yet, but perhaps there will come a time – it could be years from now – when you’ll need to get on your horse and ride into battle and you’re going to hesitate. You’re going to falter. To heal the wound your father made, you’re going to have to get on that horse and ride into battle like a warrior.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “It’s still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than big, personal or particular rather than socially significant.”
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