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Cheryl Strayed Quotes

Cheryl Strayed quotes about life

American Writer September 17, 1968

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It is not so incomprehensible as you pretend, sweet pea. Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as the hug we give a friend or heavy as the sacrifices we make for our children. It can be romantic, platonic, familial, fleeting, everlasting, conditional, unconditional, imbued with sorrow, stoked by sex, sullied by abuse, amplified by kindness, twisted by betrayal, deepened by time, darkened by difficulty, leavened by generosity,... Cheryl Strayed
You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts. You have to pay your electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you... Cheryl Strayed
There 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
One Christmas at the very beginning of your twenties when your mother gives you a warm coat that she saved for months to buy, don’t look at her skeptically after she tells you she thought the coat was perfect for you. Don’t hold it up and say it’s longer than you like your coats to be and too puffy and possibly even too warm. Your mother will be dead by spring. That coat will be the last gift she gave you. You will regret the small thing you didn’t say for the rest of your life. Say thank you. Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed quote: "The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle..."
The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it. Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed quote: "Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself..."
Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it. Cheryl Strayed
What’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. Take what you have and stack it up like a tower of teetering blocks. Build your dream around that. Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed quote: "Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding"
Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed quote: "The fuck is your life. Answer it."
The fuck is your life. Answer it. Cheryl Strayed
Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You are a writer because you write. Keep writing and quit your bitching. Your book has a birthday. You don't know what it is yet. Cheryl Strayed
I'll never know, and neither will you of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore. Cheryl Strayed
My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home. Cheryl Strayed
It hadn't occurred to me that my mother would die. Until she was dying, the thought had never entered my mind. She was monolithic and insurmountable, the keeper of my life. Cheryl Strayed
I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. I didn't embrace the word as my new name because it defined negative aspects of my circumstances or life, but because even in my darkest days—those very days in which I was naming myself—I saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn't have known before. Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed quote: "It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds."
It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds. Cheryl Strayed

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