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

“You can love a person without wanting to be with them. Just like you can want to be with someone before you love them.”

— Thomas Maddox, amazon.com

“I hope you discover that love is both a feeling and an action, like light is both a particle and a wave.”

— Iain Thomas, goodreads.com

“I want to love you wildly. I don't want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.”

— Anaïs Nin, goodreads.com

“I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“I am hopelessly in love with you. I imagine your deft fingers gently brushing away the tiny hairs from my forehead and your lips stealing a kiss my own, and I think that we could have had a good life had you chosen me too.”

— Anne Kearney, wnq-writers.com

“I want to kiss the kindness inside you. I want you to be loved in the exact way you love. We’re both ready with our, “You met me at a really weird time in my life…” monologues and I want to rehearse lines with you.”

— Ari Eastman, Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com

“The love of a city, like the love of a person, often begins in the first instant of encounter. The rest is discovery and exploration.”

— John Baxter, amazon.com

“I’m not saying that you are perfect. I’m just saying that I wouldn’t change anything about you.”

— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com

“I was working as a bartender at the time and had just gotten off work. I decided to drive through Downtown Fredrick, which was a terrible idea considering it was midnight on a Thursday. I was driving down Market Street when I saw flashing red and blue lights come on behind me. I pulled over and wait…”

— The Way We Met, instagram.com

“This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can ev…”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“Remember, you are the most important person in your life, and pursuing your dreams and goals comes first.”

— Lexi Cope, amazon.com

“You keep pushing me away, baby I find that impressive.”

— Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, open.spotify.com

“Baby it was real and we were the best.”

— Unknown, kcorley92.tumblr.com

“I still haven’t found you, but I wait patiently for the day you come into my life. The thoughts of you in my dreams are worth all the lonely nights. I will fill my heart with love until the day I have the chance to give it all to you.”

— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com

“Ever since I was young, I never understood anything in the world, and I never understood anything that happened in my life. The only thing that ever made sense to me was you and how I felt about you. That’s all I’ve ever known and that’s enough. That's enough for me, for the rest of my life.”

— Cory Matthews, amazon.com

“To Mark, I was not a problem to solve, a puzzle that needed working out. I was the girl he was falling in love with, just as I was falling in love with him.”

— Sara Eckel, nytimes.com

“She is the kind of girl you never wash off. Once you love her you wear her like your own skin.”

— Unknown, thewordsyouneverunderstood.tumblr.com

“I look a girl in the eye and it was a very long love story with thunder and kisses and lightning. I live fast.”

— Franz Kafka, amazon.com

“The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and joy and youth, but perhaps, of dreams. They listened to the music, each hearing it in his own way, feeling relaxed and a part of the music, a part of each other,…”

— Hubert Selby Jr., amazon.com

“You fall in love with who you fall in love with; you can never choose. I guess some people just come with a little more baggage. I mean, look — we [Miley] were together five years, so I don't think those feelings will ever change. And that's good because that proves to me that it was real. It wasn't…”

— Liam Hemsworth, mensfitness.com

“Loving can hurt, loving can hurt sometimes but it's the only thing that I know when it gets hard.”

— Ed Sheeran, amazon.com

“My alone is beautiful. It is slowly filling the graves you left inside me with self love and healing. My alone is softer with my heart than your love has ever left it feeling.”

— Nikita Gill, instagram.com

“I could tell that the only thing they had in the world was each other, and it was really touching.”

— Jesu, open.spotify.com

“In one kiss you’ll know all I haven’t said.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

“You are your experiences and your fears and the love you let yourself feel. You are your degree and your talent and your passion. You are your pain, your joy, and your fantasies.”

— Renee Carlino, amazon.com

“Thank you for making me feel safe in knowing that wherever life takes me, I can always come back to you. I can always find a home in you. Thank you for not letting life and distance define our friendship.”

— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com

“If I fall in love with you, I promise to always be the last goodnight kiss, the last text in our conversation, the last voice lingering on the telephone, making sure you hang up first.”

— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com

“I love only you, I’m happy only in dreams of you, you are my joy and my world, this is as certain and real as being aware of one’s being alive.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com

“I love you enough to rid myself of anything that might trouble you. I will become another person.”

— Franz Kafka, books.google.com.ph

“Is this a dream or are you really mine?”

— Andy Shimoff, barenakedlife.com