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

“Just shut up! Here... I wanna marry you because you're the first person I wanna look at when I wake up in the morning, and the only one I wanna kiss goodnight. Because the first time that I saw these hands, I couldn't imagine not being able to hold them. But mainly, when you love someone as much as…”

— Ryan Reynolds, Will Hayes, Ryan Reynolds, amazon.com

“Look for the girl with the broken smile. Ask her if she wants to stay a while.”

— Maroon 5, open.spotify.com

“Some people you meet and they're your friend for a day. Some you meet and you never really know at all. And then there are those who get caught inside your soul and stay there forever.”

— Melodie Ramone, amazon.com

“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”

— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com

“Baby, you're my cuddle bug. You know that you're my queen, you know I'm going snuggle you girl.”

— Cody Ko, open.spotify.com

“Gotta hold on easy as I let you go. Gonna tell you how much I love you, though you think you already know. I remember I thought you looked like an angel wrapped in pink so soft and warm. You've had me wrapped around your finger since the day you were born. You're beautiful baby from the outside in.…”

— Tim McGraw, youtube.com

“Marion: 'I love you, Harry. You make me feel like a person. Like I'm me... and I'm beautiful.' Harry: 'You are beautiful. You're the most beautiful girl in the world. You are my dream.'”

— Jennifer Connelly, Jared Leto, Marion, Harry, amazon.com

“….and she loved a little boy very, very much– even more than she loved herself.”

— Shel Silverstein, amazon.com

“Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.”

— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com

“Like star dust glistening on fairies' wings, Little girls dreams are of magical things.”

— Sherry Larson

“I think about my best friendship as like a great romance of my young life.”

— Lena Dunham, interviewmagazine.com

“You were the only thing in my life that was real.”

— Léa Seydoux, Emma, amazon.com

“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”

— Tom Robbins, amazon.com

“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”

— Hubert H Humphrey, amazon.com

“My eyes are in love with your smile.”

— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com

“Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“True love wasn’t about the amount of time you spent with someone, it was about the quality of the time.”

— Tracy Brogan, amazon.com

“You know you’re with the right person when you realize that their happiness matters.”

— Cantika Rustandi, thoughtcatalog.com

“Sometimes to find a true love, means one must first stop being blind and see people for who they are.”

— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com

“your smile. is the ultimate golden dream. all the poems in the world are waking up from.”

— Sanober Khan, goodreads.com

“That casual kiss on my cheek would have meant nothing up until recently, I realized I was in love with him. Not that, 'I love you, man,' type of love. Nope. I was ass over teacup in love with my best friend. The 'let's get married and grow old together' type of love.”

— Summer Michaels, amazon.com

“The only thing scarier than telling someone you love them is telling them that you still love them.”

— Ella Dawson, medium.com

“I met Kristina when she came up on my explore page on Instagram and was mesmerized by her crystal blue/green eyes. I built up the courage to send her a message and gave her my number, hoping to get to know her better. We talked for a week or so until she agreed to let me take her out to dinner. Afte…”

— The Way We Met, instagram.com

“True love is elusive, she said, sometimes I think it’s as rare as a red moon on a cloudless night.”

— Michael Faudet, twitter.com

“I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.”

— Edith Wharton, amazon.com

“You fill my eager heart with such desire Every kiss you give sets my soul on fire I give myself in sweet surrender”

— John Coltrane, open.spotify.com

“Monica: Chandler, for so long I wondered if I would ever find my prince, my soul mate. Then three years ago, at another wedding, I turned to a friend for comfort. And instead, I found everything that I'd ever been looking for my whole life. And now, here we are, with our future before us—and I only…”

— Monica Geller, Chandler Bing, amazon.com

“You deserve peace, love, happiness and all that your heart desires. Don’t let anyone control your life and take away those things.”

— Sonya Parker, onsizzle.com

“I’ve had friends that couldn’t be my lover. I’ve had lovers who couldn’t be my friend. I can’t wait for the day I find the person that is both.”

— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com

“3-year-old: *points to dog* That's my dog. Me: Yup. 3: *points to pig* That's my pig. Me: Yeah. 3: *points to me* You're my person. I'll take that.”

— James Breakwell, twitter.com