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

“Oh, baby please, Oh, my heart's on the pavement.”

— Rhye, open.spotify.com

“Sometimes love is the person who sees your mess and has no problem with helping you pick it all up.”

— R.H. Sin, amazon.com

“And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God.”

— Les Miserables, yourtango.com

“Love you? Ah, yes! More than my life!”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

“Her laughter tickled my soul.”

— Katie McGarry, amazon.com

“I don’t believe in unconditional love. In fact, I think it’s unwise. My love has had a condition that if ever my love keeps you from you, from your growing, and realizing your personal potential, then I must step aside. No one has the right to stand in the way of another’s joy, development, or uniqu…”

— Leo Buscaglia, peopleandpossibilities.com

“I had a dream about you.”

— Maria Montgomery, medhealthdaily.com

“Romantic love is seductive. Like any good drug, it enraptures. It takes you up and carries you away. Your heart beats faster; your veins course with joy itself; you're giddy and smiley and all is right with the world.”

— Daniel Coffeen, hilariousbookbinder.blogspot.com

“Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.”

— Bertrand Russell, shortstatusquotes.com

“I want you to be happy, and it seems to me that I could give you that happiness — a sunny, simple happiness — and not an altogether common one.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, goodreads.com

“I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes.…”

— Billy Crystal, Harry, amazon.com

“Because when something happens, she’s the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.”

— David Levithan, amazon.com

“He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.”

— Lisa See, amazon.com

“My resolution this year is to buy a dog and practice loving something back.”

— Emily Horne, Joey Comeau, asofterworld.com

“I've been waiting all my life to love you.”

— Rascal Flatts, play.spotify.com

“You are the love of my life so far.”

— Emily Horne, Joey Comeau, asofterworld.com

“To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”

— Mark Twain, barnesandnoble.com

“It's amazing how one day someone walks into your life and you can't remember how you ever lived without them.”

— Unknown, facebook.com

“It’s hard when you build your life with someone and then one day they decide you’re not enough anymore.”

— Justin Doble, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Lydia, Orla Brady, imdb.com

“When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.”

— Vincent Starrett, abebooks.com

“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has be…”

— John Green, amazon.com

“I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has be…”

— John Green, amazon.com

“My mouth hasn’t shut up about you since you kissed it. The idea that you may kiss it again is stuck in my brain, which hasn’t stopped thinking about you since well before any kiss.”

— Alex Turner, buzzfeed.com

“My soul will find yours.”

— Jude Deveraux, amazon.com

“I've got sunshine on a cloudy day. When it's cold outside I've got the month of May. I guess you'd say What can make me feel this way? My girl”

— The Temptations, amazon.com

“Literally any type of face swap is a win: your dad, your dog, a teddy bear, Doll Harry Styles. Anything.”

— Kelsey Stiegman, seventeen.com

“I said a lot of crappy things the other night and I'm sorry about that. The truth is, I'm scared to be your friend, because I'm always going to want more. But then I got to thinking that I would rather have you in my life as a friend than not at all.”

— Chris, amazon.com

“Hey baby, I think I wanna marry you.”

— Bruno Mars, play.spotify.com

“need, v.: Life requires love, but it does not require that love to come from a single source.”

— David Levithan, twitter.com

“We didn’t do anything much more than kiss for several months...She was worth the wait.”

— Kelsey Grammer, huffingtonpost.com