I walked all those miles, I learned all those lessons. It's as if my n…

Cheryl Strayed
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I walked all those miles, I learned all those lessons. It's as if my new life was the gift I got at the end of a long struggle.
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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
Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you hav … ▶
…the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen to me, I thought. The worst thing already had. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2012). Wild: From Lo … ▶
And 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 Books Ltd
Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.

I walked all those miles, I learned all those lessons. It's as if my new life was the gift I got at the end of a long struggle.

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