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

“Yes, we could kiss. I could kiss you and you could kiss me. There's no science, plane ticket or clock stopping us. But if we kiss, it will end the world. And I've ended the world before. No one survived.”

— Iain Thomas, amazon.com

“It’s not about staying single until the right person comes along, it’s about dating, falling in love, growing, becoming, and eventually meeting that person somewhere along the way.”

— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com

“Here's the one thing we'll announce: Love's the only thing that counts”

— George Gershwin, open.spotify.com

“True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.”

— Josh Grayson, 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.”

— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”

— Markus Zusak, amazon.com

“I love you more and more every day if it’s even possible to love someone that much.”

— Blair Waldorf, amazon.com

“Never chase love, affection, or attention by another person, it isn't worth having.”

— Unknown, instagram.com

“You were always a difficult person to understand but never to love”

— Kriti. G, kriti-g.tumblr.com

“Given the right psychological conditions, a person could fall in love with anyone.”

— Miranda July, amazon.com

“I text a potential girlfriend Thinking of you,' often…I don't hold back.”

— Scott, glamour.com

“One day you'll wake up next to the love of your life in a pretty house with puppies and cute kids and all the hard things happening now will be worth it.”

— Amaan Shaikh, facebook.com

“I love texting you, but I would rather see you in person.”

— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

— Mignon McLaughlin, amazon.com

“And it's love if everything reminds you of the person you are trying to forget.”

— R.M Drake, rmdrk.bigcartel.com

“She isn’t afraid to be the first person to say ‘I love you.”

— Ella Cerón, thoughtcatalog.com

“I want to hold your hand and walk with you through every beautiful country, take a picture with you in every breathtaking forest, kiss you under the stars in this sky that’s the same no matter where we end up, but feels so different, so magical in an uncharted place. I want to run wild with you, fee…”

— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com

“I love you very much. I loved you from the first day I met you, and I still feel the same. If I hadn’t met you, my life would have been unbearable. For that I am grateful beyond words.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Being in a relationship is hard. And committing, making sacrifices it's hard. But if it's the right person, it's easy. Looking at that girl, and knowing she's all you really want out of life, that should be the easiest thing in the world/ And if it's not like that then she's not the one.”

— Marshall, amazon.com

“I hope that we can be each other’s teachers. I want to learn the caverns of your soul & the peaks of your life.”

— Aly Chaffee, thoughtcatalog.com

“I want to go out of my way to make you happy because your happiness is in fact my happiness.”

— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com

“Not a day passes that I do not see ourselves, you and me, as we were when we met first. Every day of my life I see that.”

— James Joyce, amazon.com

“You light me up, when you ring my bell. You're a mystery, you're from outer space, You're every minute of my everyday. And I can't believe, uh that I'm your man, And I get to kiss you baby just because I can.”

— Michael Bublé, open.spotify.com

“Just kiss me on the mouth.”

— Thomas Ward, Hannah Gadsby, Liz Doran, Josh Thomas, Josh, Josh Thomas, imdb.com

“I wish I could kiss you good morning.”

— Erin Cossetta, thoughtcatalog.com

“Kiss me and you will see how important I am.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

“I’ll kiss you if you want me to.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“Like a little warm coal in my heart burns your saying that you miss me. I miss you oh so much. How much, you'll never believe or know. At every moment of the day. It is painful but also rather pleasant, if you know what I mean. I mean, that it is good to have so keen and persistent a feeling about s…”

— Vita Sackville West, amazon.com

“I bet you’ll smile when you read this!”

— Bella Pope, lovepanky.com

“You’re a really well-read baby.”

— Jonathan Van Ness, imdb.com