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Cheryl Strayed Quotes

Total quotes: 73
“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Self-Perception, Self-Esteem, Faking It Until You Make It
“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.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Tagged: Alone, Introvert, State Of Being
“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, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Tagged: Way Out, Way In, Life
“He reached over and touched his finger very delicately to the edge of one of its straps, near my collarbone, but instead of pushing it down and off my shoulder as I thought he would, he ran his finger slowly along then upper edge of my bra in front and then traced it all the way down around the bottom. I watched his face while he did this. It seemed more intimate than kissing him had. By the time he’d finished outlining the whole thing, he’d barely touched me and yet I was so wet I could hardly stand up.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Tagged: Sex, erotica, Kissing
“There is no why. You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding. And, dear one, you and I both were granted a mighty generous hand.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Life
“With him I felt trapped, branded, held, and beloved. Like a daughter.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Feeling Small, Unhealthy Love
“The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny, Beautiful Things: Advice On Life And Love From Dear Sugar
Tagged: Love, Fighting, Life, Empowering
“We are all entitled to our opinions and religious beliefs, but we are not entitled to make shit up and then use the shit we made up to oppress other people.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Religion, Beliefs, Oppression
“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.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Personality, Individuality
“Go, even though there is nowhere to go. Go, even though you don't know exactly why you can't stay. Go, because you want to. Because wanting to leave is enough.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Leaving, Moving On, Walking Away
“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.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: learn, Love, Self-improvement
“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.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Love, real love, Know When To Move On
“There'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.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“We are all entitled to our opinions and religious beliefs, but we are not entitled to make shit up and then use the shit we made up to oppress other people.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Life
“You have to say 'I am forgiven' again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: forgiveness, Forgiving Yourself
“There are so many things to be tortured about, sweet pea. Don't let the man who doesn't love you be one of them.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Unrequited Love
“It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Moving On, strength, Starting Over, Trauma, Grief
“Writing is hard....Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Writing, Working, Working Hard, Passion
“Sometimes the greatest truth isn't in the confession but rather in the lesson learned.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Life
“The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and parched earth. It is mud and it is manna. The real work of deep grief is making a home there.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Grief, Re-invention
“You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you’ve got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that’s all.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Life, Responsibility
“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.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Belonging, Nurture
“But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Jackass, kindness, Self-awareness, Self-improvement
“Just because you leave someone doesn't mean the relationship is over. It goes on.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
Tagged: Life
“The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Tagged: Universe, Lessons Learned, Life
“You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Life, Dealing With Life
“I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild
Tagged: Nature, Peaceful, Being One, Being Whole
“Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Joy, Happiness, The Past, Moving On, Change
“There isn’t a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Judging Others, Jealousy, Bitterness, Pride
“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.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Love, How to be good at love
“I’d finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted was a way in. I was there now. Or close.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Tagged: Loss, Starting Over, Acceptance, Resisting Change
“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.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: forgiveness
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Love, Survival, Suffering
“Our minds are small, but our hearts are big.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Love, Why people are such dicks
“Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Truth, Personal Truth, Integrity, Trust, Trusting Yourself
“Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Tagged: Freedom, Free Spirit
“The fuck is your life. Answer it.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
“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.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Reality, Acceptance, Holding On, Letting Go, Life, Love
“How wild it was, to let it be.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Tagged: Wild, Let It Be
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