Cheryl Strayed quotes

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)
In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole. View quote
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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. View quote
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I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate. View quote
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But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got. View quote
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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. View quote
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He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered. View quote
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Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill. View quote
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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. View quote
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No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives. View quote
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It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds. (Cheryl Strayed)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in. View quote
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You get to define the terms of your life. View quote
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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)
That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding. View quote
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Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it. View quote
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You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself. View quote
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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. View quote
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