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Cheryl Strayed Quote: “I’m also reminded of how those words no longer belong only to me; how, when we identify with what another has said or written, we use those words as an articulation of our own inner voices, not only as a celebration of theirs.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “These are not pretty things, but they are true things.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “It’s wrong that this is required of you. It’s wrong that your son died. It will always be wrong.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “I could only be who it seemed I had to be.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “You’re clear that you don’t want to act on your crush, so trust that clarity and be grateful that you have it.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “As close as we’d been when we were together, we were closer in our unraveling, telling each other everything at last, words that seemed to us might never have been spoken between two human beings before, so deep we went, saying everything that was beautiful and ugly and true.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “How strange and glorious it was to be anchored to nothing, to be free, in some particular way, for the first time in my life.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “I never did make that Thanksgiving dinner. By the time Thanksgiving rolled around eight months after my mom died, my family was something I spoke of in the past tense.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “It felt ancient. Knowing. Utterly and profoundly indifferent to me.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “At a certain point we get to decide who it is we allow to influence us.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “We are here to build the house.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Our minds are small, but our hearts are big.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Don’t worry about it too much. You’re green, but you’re tough. And tough is what matters the most out here. Not just anyone could do what you’re doing.”
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. It’s about the person who’s being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird. If this were summed up on a bumper sticker, it would say: Don’t own other people’s crap. The world would be a better place if we all did that.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Just as I’d seemed to be doing okay after my mom died. Grief doesn’t have a face.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “I’d entered the city the way one enters any grand love affair: with no exit plan.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Be brave. Write what’s true for you. Write what you think. What about what confuses you and compels you. Write about the crazy, hard, and beautiful. Write what scares you. Write what makes you laugh and write what makes you weep. What what makes you feel ashamed or proud. Writing is risk and revelation. There’s no need to show up at the party if you’re only going to stand around with your hands in your pockets and stare at the drapes.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Foot speed was a profoundly different way of moving through the world than my normal modes of travel. Miles weren’t things that blazed dully past. They were long, intimate straggles of weeds and clumps of dirt, blades of grass and flowers that bent in the wind, trees that lumbered and screeched.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “I never found a way to write about it until I wrote this letter to you, Ruler, when I realized it was a story you needed to hear. Not how the kittens suffered during those weeks they were wandering inside the dark building with no way out – though surely there’s something there too – but how they saved themselves. How frightened those kittens were, and yet how they persisted. How when two strangers offered up their palms, they stepped in.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “You don’t have to be broken for me. I didn’t have to be broken for him, even though parts of me were. I could be every piece of myself and he’d love me still. My appeal did not rely on my weakness or my need. It relied on everything I was and wanted to be.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “It felt now as if I’d never known them and I couldn’t know them again. It seemed to me that whatever had existed back in the place where I’d grown up was so far away now, impossible to retrieve.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Maybe it was ridiculous to go on a date with someone I’d barely spoken to and whose main appeal was that he was good-looking and he liked Wilco. I’d certainly done such things with men based on far less.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “In mijn dagelijkse pre-PCT-leven hield ik al van boeken, maar tijdens de voettocht kregen ze een diepere betekenis. ZE vormden de wereld waarin ik mezelf kon laten gaan wanneer de realiteit te eenzaam, hard of moeilijk werd om te verdragen.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “She loved us more than all the named things in the world.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “You have a bundle on your head, sweet pea. And though that bundle may be impossible for you to see right now, it’s entirely visible to me. You aren’t torn. You’re only just afraid.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “There are stories hidden in the language we use, whether we’re conscious of them or not. They tell the truth of our hearts and minds.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Because there is something worse than the I-can’t-live-without-her heartbreak hellspace you’re in right now, Afraid. It’s spending your life with a partner who, at her or his deepest core, does not want to be with you. It’s accepting a reluctant half love for fear that’s all you can get or deserve. It’s dangling eternally in doubt. It’s believing that a lie will keep you safe and the truth is where the danger lies.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “A terrible thing happened to you, but you mustn’t let it define your life.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “It was April in Minneapolis and snowing, the flakes coming down in thick swirls enchanting the city.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “But the people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity. They’ve taken into their hearts the idea that there is enough for all of us, that success will manifest itself in different ways for different artists, that keeping the faith is more important than cashing the check, that being genuinely happy for someone who got something you hope to get makes you genuinely happier too.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Hard as I fought for it to be otherwise, finally I had to admit it too: without my mother, we weren’t what we’d been; we were four people floating separately among the flotsam of our grief, connected by only the thinnest rope.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “The people in my life were like the BandAids that had blown away in the desert wind that first day on the trail. They scattered and then they were gone.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “The only place I could reach her. In me.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “You get to define the terms of your life. You get to negotiate and articulate the complexities and contradictions of your feelings...”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “You did things you didn’t hope to do. You have not always been your best self. This means that you’re like the rest of us.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “We have to be whole people to find whole love, even if we have to make it up for a while.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I’d done something I shouldn’t have? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I’d done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do? What if I was sorry, but if I could go back in time I wouldn’t do anything differently than I had done?”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Letting go of expectation when it comes to one’s children is close to impossible. The entire premise of our love for them has to do with creating, fostering, and nurturing people who will outlive us. To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Do you know what boundaries are? The best, sanest people on the planet do.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was. The radical aloneness of the PCT had altered that sense. Alone wasn’t a room anymore, but the whole wide world, and now I was alone in that world, occupying it in a way I never had before.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Inhabit the beauty that lives in your beastly body and strive to see the beauty in all the other beasts.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “You must love in order to be loved. You must be inclusive in order to feel yourself among the included. You must give in order to receive.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “I’d been a girl forever, after all, familiar with and reliant upon the powers my very girlness granted me.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “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 Quote: “Ultimatums have negative connotations for many because they’re often used by bullies and abusers, who tend to be comfortable pushing their partners’ backs against a wall, demanding that he or she choose this or that, all or nothing. But when used by emotionally healthy people with good intentions, ultimatums offer a respectful and loving way through an impasse that will sooner or later destroy a relationship on its own anyway.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “That your friends have those opinions, however, does not mean that they don’t love you or value you as a friend or otherwise think you are one of the best people they know.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Nella vita ci sono un’alba e un tramonto ogni giorno. E tu puoi scegliere di essere presente, puoi metterti sulla strada della bellezza.”
Cheryl Strayed Quote: “Naked and smiling” is one male friend’s only requirement for a lover. Perhaps it’s because men are people with bodies full of fears and insecurities and shortcomings of their own. Find one of them. One who makes you think and laugh and come. Invite him into the tiny revolution in your beautiful new world.”
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