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

“My soul made love to your soul long before our bodies met”

— Anita Krizzan, herinterest.com

“My dog Cleo was the best relationship I've ever had in my life.”

— Alexander Rosenberg, imdb.com

“'I'll tell you,' said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, 'what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!'”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.”

— Mindy Kaling, parade.com

“My biggest hero in the whole world was my dad.”

— Guy Fieri, thrillist.com

“If you love someone, you believe she is the best person in the world. She doesn’t see herself like that, and that’s the only thing he wants to show her. That’s love. He wants her to love herself the same way he loves her.”

— Robert Pattinson, rob-patt.tumblr.com

“I’m not in love with you. But that doesn’t mean that you’re not an important person in my life.”

— Grace Jung, amazon.com

“In the whole entire world, you are the only person, the only person I love or have ever loved. And I love you terribly. Terribly. That’s what’s so awfully, irreducibly real. I can make up anything but I can’t dream that away.”

— Tony Kushner, amazon.com

“Happiness is not about politics. Or about success. Or about improving my life. Happiness is about you and me and what we will do together.”

— James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com

“I know you love her. If anything, you love her too much.’ ‘There’s no such thing.’ ‘Yeah, well… I’m just saying that she’s not always the easiest person to be married to.’ ‘That’s because she’s a woman.’ ‘Don’t start second-guessing yourself now. Unless you were willing to move halfway across the co…”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“My single best decision in 30 years as an author? To treat every single writer I meet, no matter where they are in their journey, with kindness and as a serious person intent on pursuing an art that I love. It has brought so much joy and so many wonderful people into my life.”

— Kelly McCullough, twitter.com

“A guy out there was meant to be the love of your life, your best friend, your soul mate, the one you can tell your dreams to. He'll brush the hair out of your eyes. Send you flowers when you least expect it. He'll stare at you during the movies, even though he paid $8 to see it. He'll call to say go…”

— Nicholas Sparks, nicholassparks.com

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

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.”

— Stieg Larsson, amazon.com

“Love is fuel for the mind, body, and soul. Love you, love your people, let yourself lean into love.”

— Megan Minutillo, thoughtcatalog.com

“I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s no end to it. You can kiss forever. You can kiss yourself into oblivion. You can kiss all over the body. You can kiss yourself to sleep. And when you wake up, you can’t…”

— Sufjan Stevens, open.spotify.com

“True love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“True love is more than words. It may involve flying across the country, even when it costs you your last nickel, to bring your spouse home.”

— James C. Dobson, Shirley Dobson, amazon.com

“I love you, because I have seen your soul.”

— Violet Trefusis, amazon.com

“God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“Girl, yo feet must be tired cause you've been running through my mind all day!”

— Will Smith, amazon.com

“When you give a girl a father, you give her a coach, a fan for life, and a person who will go to bat for her, and who will “bail her out” of sticky situations she has no control over.”

— Carley Daniel, thoughtcatalog.com

“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“I love you, my sun, my life, I love your eyes — closed — all the little tails of your thoughts, your stretchy vowels, your whole soul from head to heels.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, goodreads.com

“My life before was such a mess There's no use dwelling on the past My broken heart was in a cast Then you showed up and it began to heal 'Cause you're the only thing that matters 'Cause you're the only thing that's real 'Cause you're the only thing I'll never let go 'Cause you're the only thing I fe…”

— Blink 182, youtube.com

“You never understand the pure joy of sitting next to someone and doing absolutely nothing until they’re the person you adore the most.”

— Unknown, p3nnyforyourth0ughts.tumblr.com

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, go…”

— Bob Marley, amazon.com

“At night time I sleep dreaming of you, and in the day time I dream of sleeping with you.”

— Philip Hegarty, lovepanky.com

“The feeling we catching, my love is a blessing.”

— Post Malone, open.spotify.com