40 Empowering Cheryl Strayed Quotes That Will Help You Channel Your Inner Badass

“All I understood was that she was the girl I sat up every night thinking about, and when I’m with her I’m happy to be alive. Like I can do anything, even talk to you like this. That’s what love is mom, when I am a better person because she is here.”

— Cory Matthews, amazon.com

“She scares the hell out of me and calms my soul at the same time. Maybe that’s what love is—a total contradiction that somehow balances out.”

— Tammara Webber, amazon.com

“Introduced myself to mother again today.”

— Annoymous, quora.com

“I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally. It is easier to love a person with their flaws than to weed through them. I want to love the whole person, not parts; and this is how I want to be loved.”

— Jewel, amazon.com

“I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally. It is easier to love a person with their flaws than to weed through them. I want to love the whole person, not parts; and this is how I want to be loved.”

— Jewel Kilcher, amazon.com

“You make my sadness disappear with your beautiful smile.”

— Keith Brown, lovepanky.com

“I think I fall in love a little bit with anyone who shows me their soul. This world is so guarded and fearful. I appreciate rawness so much.”

— Hplyrikz, facebook.com

“I think I fall in love a little bit with anyone who shows me their soul. This world is so guarded and fearful. I appreciate rawness so much.”

— Hp Lyrikz, kcorley92.tumblr.com

“Our love is old and sure, not new and frantic. You know I’m yours and I know you are mine. And saying that has made me feel romantic, My dearest love, my darling valentine.”

— Wendy Cope, telegraph.co.uk

“He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.”

— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com

“But the most beautiful things in life are just not things. They’re people and places, memories and pictures. They’re feeling and moments and smiles and laughter.”

— Unknown, wnq-anonymous.com

“i miss the sounds of our happiness”

— M. Ocean, amazon.com

“We should just kiss like real people do.”

— Hozier, open.spotify.com

“I love you in waves, and lately, every day has been a hurricane.”

— Amanda Helm, amandaspoetry.tumblr.com

“Just one smile immensely increases the beauty of the universe.”

— Sri Chinmoy, amazon.com

“If you smile at something, it automatically makes you happier.”

— Elizabeth Eulberg, amazon.com

“Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole, to feel safe, to be healed, to join together with someone, heart and soul.”

— Michael R. French, amazon.com

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com

“See you soon my strange joy, my tender night.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, goodreads.com

“Love, and love only, supported, controlled, and grandly completed the universe! He accepted this answer to all perplexities — his heart expanded with a sense of large content — his soul was satisfied.”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

“‘I’m your girl,’ she said in the dark. 'Your girl. No matter what I’m always your girl.’”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“You deserve love not because you’re a ‘special woman’ or an ‘amazing man,’ but because you’re a human being. Every single person alive is worthy of love.”

— Will Penney, thoughtcatalog.com.loox.nu

“I woke up wanting to kiss you.”

— Katherine Besset, girlterest.com

“Kiss me, so I remember how.”

— Gregory Alan Isakov, open.spotify.com

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com

“When that special day comes... You'll be very taken, and very much in love.”

— Keishorne Scott, instagram.com

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”

— Anonymous, en.wikiquote.org

“The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person’s soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.”

— Keith Miller, facebook.com

“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”

— Victor Hugo, amazon.com