Cheryl StrayedBut compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2013). Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Wh… ▶371LifeLoveReading
Cheryl StrayedDon’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a single dumbass thing I’ve done in my adult life that I didn’t know was a dumbass thing to … ▶351LifeThoughtTime
Cheryl StrayedMost 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… ▶351LifeLoveReading
Cheryl StrayedThere'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. ✨ Che… ▶374Death
Cheryl StrayedHow wild it was, to let it be. ✨ FaceBook post byCheryl Strayed from Jul 09, 2014352Reading
Cheryl StrayedWhat’s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the commission made up. It’s up to you to make your life. T… ▶374LifeLoveReading
Cheryl StrayedThe amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand named things in the Tao Te Ching’s universe and then ten thousa… ▶341LoveReading
Cheryl StrayedThe universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2012). Wild (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Digital Edition): From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, p.2… ▶342Reading
Cheryl StrayedForgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2013). Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice o… ▶376LifeLoveReading
Cheryl StrayedWhen I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror, watching myself solemnly brush my teeth. I tried to feel something lik… ▶321LoveReading
Cheryl StrayedThe useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collection… ▶321DeathHumanityLife
Cheryl StrayedYou 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. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2… ▶332LifeLovePhilosophy
Cheryl StrayedThere are so many things to be tortured about, sweet pea. So many torturous things in this life. Don't let the man who doesn't love you be one of them. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (201… ▶377LifeLove
Cheryl StrayedEvery time I set foot on that trail, I feel grateful for the PCTA for doing the work it does to protect and preserve it377Time
Cheryl StrayedAnd every last one of us can do better than give up. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2013). Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There, p.113, Atlantic B… ▶311LifeLoveReading
Cheryl StrayedThe complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know w… ▶333LifeLoveReading
Cheryl StrayedI 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… ▶344Reading
Cheryl StrayedWe like to pretend that our generous impulses come naturally. But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish… ▶366LifeLovePhilosophy
Cheryl StrayedI'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. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2012). Wild: A Journey fro… ▶377Reading
Cheryl StrayedTrusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2013). Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There, p… ▶311LifeLoveReading
Cheryl StrayedYou have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. Bu… ▶333HumanityLifeLove
Cheryl StrayedBe about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2013). Tiny Beautiful Things: Ad… ▶367LifeLoveReading
Cheryl StrayedI 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 (2012). Wild: From Lost to Found… ▶323Politics
Cheryl StrayedReal love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2013). Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s… ▶301LifeLoveReading
Cheryl StrayedThe 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 (… ▶379HumanityLifeLove
Cheryl StrayedYou have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2013). Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life … ▶313LifeLoveReading
Cheryl StrayedYou have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better to write a book that kind of sucks rather th… ▶302Reading
Cheryl StrayedYou get to define the terms of your life. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2013). Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd324LifeLoveReading
Cheryl StrayedFear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2012). Wild: From Lost to Found o… ▶335Politics
Cheryl StrayedEach evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but fr… ▶358LoveReading
