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Cheryl Strayed quotes: When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. ROBERT PINSKY, "Samurai Song" Never never never give up. WINSTON CHURCHILL When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. ROBERT PINSKY, "Samurai Song" Never never never give up. WINSTON CHURCHILL
Cheryl Strayed quotes: I think we underestimate the universe's desire to be kind to us. I think we underestimate the universe's desire to be kind to us.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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. 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.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Every last one of us can do better than give up. Every last one of us can do better than give up.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: How wild it is, to let it be. How wild it is, to let it be.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: We are here to build the house. We are here to build the house.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: You will regret the small thing you didn't say for the rest of your life. You will regret the small thing you didn't say for the rest of your life.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: I'm a free spirit who never had the balls to be free. I'm a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: This is how you get unstuck. You reach. This is how you get unstuck. You reach.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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. 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.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: At a certain point we get to decide who it is we allow to influence us. At a certain point we get to decide who it is we allow to influence us.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: God is not a granter of wishes. God is a ruthless bitch. God is not a granter of wishes. God is a ruthless bitch.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: I felt fierce and humble and gathered up inside, like I was safe in this world I felt fierce and humble and gathered up inside, like I was safe in this world
Cheryl Strayed quotes: I chose Van Gogh. I chose Van Gogh.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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. 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.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: My feet? Well, they were still entirely, unspeakably fucked. My feet? Well, they were still entirely, unspeakably fucked.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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. 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.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: She was a real human being laying herself bare, fearlessly, that we might come to understand the nature of our own predicaments. She was a real human being laying herself bare, fearlessly, that we might come to understand the nature of our own predicaments.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: You've made it so long without your sweet boy and now you can't take it anymore. But you can. You must. You've made it so long without your sweet boy and now you can't take it anymore. But you can. You must.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade. And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: When the path reveals itself, follow it. When the path reveals itself, follow it.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: What is hiking but walking, after all ? What is hiking but walking, after all ?
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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. 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.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: I grew up and left home for college in the Twin Cities at a school called St. Thomas, I grew up and left home for college in the Twin Cities at a school called St. Thomas,
Cheryl Strayed quotes: You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it. You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: I really came to literature through poetry. I really came to literature through poetry.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Each and every one of them had the courage to say, This is who I am even if you'll crucify me for 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.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here. Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: I'd have to eat that I'd have to eat that
Cheryl Strayed quotes: We don't reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. We start at the bottom and climb up. Blood is involved. We don't reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. We start at the bottom and climb up. Blood is involved.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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. 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.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of love. The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of love.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole. In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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. 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.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Reading's my reward at the end of the day Reading's my reward at the end of the day
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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. 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.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: The PCT had gotten easier for me, but that was different from it getting easy. The PCT had gotten easier for me, but that was different from it getting easy.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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. 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.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: This is not "how your story ends". It's simply where it takes a turn you didn't expect. This is not "how your story ends". It's simply where it takes a turn you didn't expect.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid. Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: There are stories you'll learn if you're strong enough to travel there. One of them might cure you. There are stories you'll learn if you're strong enough to travel there. One of them might cure you.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Will you do it later or will you do it now? Will you do it later or will you do it now?
Cheryl Strayed quotes: A caldera, it's called - a sort of mountain in reverse. A mountain that's had its very heart removed. A caldera, it's called - a sort of mountain in reverse. A mountain that's had its very heart removed.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Write so blazingly good that you can't be framed ... Write like a motherfucker. Write so blazingly good that you can't be framed ... Write like a motherfucker.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Wanting to leave is enough. Wanting to leave is enough.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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. 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.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true. Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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. 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.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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. 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.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Accept that someday what pains you now will surely pain you less. Accept that someday what pains you now will surely pain you less.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: A glorious something else awaits. A glorious something else awaits.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: it with their fingers out of my hands, it with their fingers out of my hands,
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Only when I thought how far I had yet to go that I lost faith that I would get there. Only when I thought how far I had yet to go that I lost faith that I would get there.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: IMAGINE WHIRLED PEAS IMAGINE WHIRLED PEAS
Cheryl Strayed quotes: There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart. There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Jean-Paul Sartre famously said that "hell is other people," which is true enough, but truer still is hell is other people's boyfriends Jean-Paul Sartre famously said that "hell is other people," which is true enough, but truer still is hell is other people's boyfriends
Cheryl Strayed quotes: We aren't poor," my mother said, again and again. "Because we're rich in love. We aren't poor," my mother said, again and again. "Because we're rich in love.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Who is tougher than me?No one. Who is tougher than me?


No one.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: The thing that would make me believe that hiking the Pacific Crest Trail was my way back to the person I used to be. The thing that would make me believe that hiking the Pacific Crest Trail was my way back to the person I used to be.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: It was April in Minneapolis and snowing, the flakes coming down in thick swirls enchanting the city It was April in Minneapolis and snowing, the flakes coming down in thick swirls enchanting the city
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Open with my knife. Inside, carefully wrapped Open with my knife. Inside, carefully wrapped
Cheryl Strayed quotes: But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got. But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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. 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.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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 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
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Romantic love is not a competitive sport. Romantic love is not a competitive sport.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: waiting for a friend to get off waiting for a friend to get off
Cheryl Strayed quotes: One of my dearest friends took the photograph of me she kept in a frame, ripped it in half, and mailed it to me. One of my dearest friends took the photograph of me she kept in a frame, ripped it in half, and mailed it to me.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: I felt it in a way I hadn't in ages: the me inside of me, occupying my spot in the fathomless Milky Way. I felt it in a way I hadn't in ages: the me inside of me, occupying my spot in the fathomless Milky Way.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: The fuck is your life. Answer it. The fuck is your life. Answer it.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate. I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Not regretting it later is the reason I've done at least three-quarters of the best things in my life. Not regretting it later is the reason I've done at least three-quarters of the best things in my life.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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. 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.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, and The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, and The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can. Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: I hated him and I loved him. With him I felt trapped, branded, held, and beloved. Like a daughter. I hated him and I loved him. With him I felt trapped, branded, held, and beloved. Like a daughter.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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. 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.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Read it like a motherfucker. Read it like a motherfucker.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have. It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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. 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.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: You're asking," I said. "I've always been the one to end You're asking," I said. "I've always been the one to end
Cheryl Strayed quotes: I'd entered the city the way one enters any grand love affair: with no exit plan. I'd entered the city the way one enters any grand love affair: with no exit plan.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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. 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.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds. It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become. To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: quitting. But now, only ten days out, I was done. I wanted quitting. But now, only ten days out, I was done. I wanted
Cheryl Strayed quotes: I didn't know where I was going until I got there. It I didn't know where I was going until I got there. It
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Withholding distorts reality. Withholding distorts reality.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself. You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: It's wrong that this is required of you. It's wrong that your son died. It will always be wrong. It's wrong that this is required of you. It's wrong that your son died. It will always be wrong.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Fountains of inconvenient feeling - and toward the frantic enticements of Fountains of inconvenient feeling - and toward the frantic enticements of
Cheryl Strayed quotes: But the thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going. But the thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: 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. 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.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Because no matter how experimental he is, his life isn't an experiment. Because no matter how experimental he is, his life isn't an experiment.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: My mom was dead. My mom was dead. My mom was dead. Everything I ever imagined about myself had disappeared into the crack of her last breath. I My mom was dead. My mom was dead. My mom was dead. Everything I ever imagined about myself had disappeared into the crack of her last breath. I
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Privilege has a way of fucking with our heads the same way as lack of it does. Privilege has a way of fucking with our heads the same way as lack of it does.
Cheryl Strayed quotes: Was there in '63, when I was barely eighteen. But now Was there in '63, when I was barely eighteen. But now

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