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

“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

— Mitch Albom, parade.com

“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”

— Suzanne Collins, amazon.com

“All I want to do in my life is to hold you tight and be with you day and night. I love you!”

— Unknown, wishesgreeting.com

“Feeling very thankful for all the amazing friendships in my life.”

— Ryan Pernofski, twitter.com

“We talk for hours and hours about the sweet and the sour and how your family is doing okay. Leave and get in a taxi, then kiss in the backseat tell the driver make the radio play And I'm singing like Girl, you know I want your love.”

— Ed Sheeran, open.spotify.com

“Now I want you to picture the love of your life. Imagine that you have 30 seconds to win her back. One shot, three sentences. What are those sentences, and who are you saying them to?”

— Dan Fogelman, Toby, Chris Sullivan, imdb.com

“You turn my life into something light, amazing, rainbowed— you put a glint of happiness on everything.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com

“Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.”

— Anne Brontë, amazon.com

“I won’t hide it: I’m so unused to being — well, understood, perhaps, — so unused to it, that in the very first minutes of our meeting I thought: this is a joke… But then… And there are things that are hard to talk about — you’ll rub off their marvelous pollen at the touch of a word… You are lovely.…”

— Vladmir Nabokov, amazon.ca

“And it was the kind of kiss that I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.”

— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com

“Sally, I'm the happiest girl in the world. I'm in love and I'm gonna be married.”

— Jean Harlow, imdb.com

“Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”

— J.K Rowling, amazon.com

“I worked so hard for that first kiss And a heart don’t forget something like that Like an old photograph Time can make a feeling fade But the memory of a first love Never fades away.”

— Tim McGraw, thinkexist.com

“My mother and father were amazing people. They were married 63 years. They had an amazing love affair.”

— Donald Trump, factba.se

“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“When I saw you first, it took every ounce of me not to kiss you. When I saw you laugh, it took every ounce of me not to fall in love. And when I saw your soul— it took every ounce of me.”

— Atticus, instagram.com

“I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her.”

— Anna, amazon.com

“I love the mother that you are. I love that you are still the most beautiful woman in any room and that you laugh with your entire face. I love that you dance funny, not sexy, which makes it even sexier, but most of all, I love that you are still the same woman who all those years ago ran out of a b…”

— Dan Fogelman, Jack, Milo Ventimiglia, imdb.com

“The whole world can burn down around us. I'll keep my arms around you until the end.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

“You can fall in love again with someone you're already in love with. It's like waking from a dream within a dream and finding another layer, the colors more vivid, the light more lucid, the fantasy more real. Being in love is an endless loop of waking to reverie.”

— Leah Raeder, amazon.com

“The wrong person makes you beg for attention, affection, love and commitment. The right person gives you these things because they love you.”

— Sonya Parker, sonyaparker.com

“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh, amazon.com

“Falling in love is easy. Falling in love with the same person repeatedly is extraordinary.”

— Crystal Woods, amazon.com

“In the end, love comes down to a decision. You have to consciously decide that you love your partner, and you need to decide this every day for the rest of your shared life.”

— Paul Hudson, elitedaily.com

“Who doesn't love to twirl all day??”

— Britney Spears, instagram.com

“You smile at people you don't know and you smile at people you don't even like and you smile for no reason.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo, amazon.com

“So I'm gonna love you, like I'm gonna lose you. I'm gonna hold you, like I'm saying goodbye.”

— Meghan Trainor, amazon.com

“The lonely nights will be ended Soon Our hearts as one will be blended I've found the happiness I've waited for The only girl that I was fated for”

— George Gershwin, open.spotify.com

“One day I hope that my best friend and I will live on the same street and that our kids will grow up together and be best friends.”

— Unknown, instagram.com