Cheryl Strayed Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed Famous Quotes & Sayings
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When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. ROBERT PINSKY, "Samurai Song" Never never never give up. WINSTON CHURCHILL
We do not have the right to feel helpless. We must help ourselves. After destiny has delivered what it delivers, we are responsible for our lives.
She was. She was imperfect. She made mistakes. But she was her best self more often than it's reasonable for any human to be.
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.
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.
She was a real human being laying herself bare, fearlessly, that we might come to understand the nature of our own predicaments.
You've made it so long without your sweet boy and now you can't take it anymore. But you can. You must.
I didn't want to hurt for him anymore, to wonder whether in leaving him I'd made a mistake, to torment myself with all the ways I'd wronged him.
You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.
Each and every one of them had the courage to say, This is who I am even if you'll crucify me for it.
We don't reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. We start at the bottom and climb up. Blood is involved.
You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.
I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.
An REI worker had encouraged me to buy a box of Spenco 2nd Skin - gel patches meant to treat burns that also happened to be great for blisters.
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.
A caldera, it's called - a sort of mountain in reverse. A mountain that's had its very heart removed.
It had been an indisputably good time, but now I felt empty. Like there was something I didn't even know I wanted until I didn't get it.
What is one boot without the other boot? It is nothing. It is useless, an orphan forevermore, and I could take no mercy on it.
All the things I'd done in my life, of all the versions of myself I'd lived out, there was one that had never changed: I was a writer.
There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.
Jean-Paul Sartre famously said that "hell is other people," which is true enough, but truer still is hell is other people's boyfriends
The thing that would make me believe that hiking the Pacific Crest Trail was my way back to the person I used to be.
Women are the ones with the cojones," said Paco as he made a bowl of guacamole. "We guys like to think we're the ones, but we're wrong.
The good things aren't a movie. There isn't enough to make a reel. The good things are a poem, barely longer than a haiku. There
One of my dearest friends took the photograph of me she kept in a frame, ripped it in half, and mailed it to me.
I felt it in a way I hadn't in ages: the me inside of me, occupying my spot in the fathomless Milky Way.
Not regretting it later is the reason I've done at least three-quarters of the best things in my life.
He felt like a brother of mine, but not at all like my actual brother. He seemed like someone I'd always know even if I never saw him again.
Someone who isn't embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and that all we have to offer, in the end, is love.
One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.
The whole deal about loving truly and for real and with all you've got has everything to do with letting those we love see what made us.
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.
You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.
But the thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.
I love music and listen to music all the time, but I didn't realize how much my body needed music. I needed it more than sex.