“Withholding distorts reality. It makes the people who do the withholding ugly and small-hearted. It makes the people from whom things are withheld crazy and desperate and incapable of knowing what they actually feel. So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Love, Withholding Love
“Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Truth, Personal Truth, Integrity, Trust, Trusting Yourself
“I happen to believe that America is dying of loneliness.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Loneliness, Community, Love
“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, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Unrequited Love
“Fear begets fear. Power begets power.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Fear, Power, Mindset, Perception
“You have to say 'I am forgiven' again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: forgiveness, Forgiving Yourself
“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, amazon.comTagged: forgiveness
“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, amazon.comTagged: Jackass, kindness, Self-awareness, Self-improvement
“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, amazon.comTagged: Life, Dealing With Life
“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, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Starting Over, Acceptance, Resisting Change
“The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or no…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Life, Journey, purpose, Faith, Hope
“There isn’t a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Judging Others, Jealousy, Bitterness, Pride
“What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I'd done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do? What if I was sorry, but if I could go back in time I wo…”— Cheryl Strayed, goodreads.comTagged: Redemption, forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, Mistakes, Making Mistakes
“The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Advice By Cheryl