Cheryl Strayed Short Quotes

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I think of quotes as mini-instruction manuals for the soul.

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That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.

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Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

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The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.

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He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

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But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

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In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

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I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

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Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

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In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.

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You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

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The people who don't give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity.

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The other half of rising—the very half that makes rising necessary—is having been nailed to the cross.

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Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.

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There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.

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He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.

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Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness.

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Can I convince the person about whom I'm crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no.

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The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.

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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.

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Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid.

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The ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn't cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

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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.

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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.

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I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.

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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.

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My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.

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Of all the things I'd been skeptical about, I didn't feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.

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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.

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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.

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