Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves. ✨ Chery…

Cheryl Strayed
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Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2012). Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, p.51, Vintage
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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. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2013). Tiny Beautiful Thing … ▶
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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. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2012). Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found, p.257, At … ▶
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Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2012). Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, p.51, Vintage

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