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“I read the last paragraph of my favorite book. I remind myself that some things I love end. And that’s okay.”

— Ari Eastman, Things I Do When I Start Thinking About You

“We don't just read sentences, we also make meaning out of how they move.”

— Juliet Patterson, 'Brief Words About The Sentence,' Eleventh Hour Lecture Series

“Art is about making decisions.”

— Juliet Patterson, 'Brief Words About The Sentence,' Eleventh Hour Lecture Series

“Money is necessary and great. But doing what you love, creating and the thing created, that’s ultimately far more important than the amount of zeroes in your bank account.”

— Chris Lavergne, Thought Catalog And The New Age Of Confessional Media

“If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don’t have to take it in. You don’t have to turn it into a big psychodrama about your worth. That behavior so often is not even about you. It’s about the person who’s being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird. If this…”

— Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough

“You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you’ve got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that’s all.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Writing is hard....Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Knowing what you're trying to say is always important, but knowing what you've said is crucial.”

— Juliet Patterson, 'Brief Words About The Sentence,' Eleventh Hour Lecture Series

“Wanting was a wilderness.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“You're so outraged and surprised this shitty thing happened to you that there's a piece of you that isn't yet convinced it did. You're looking for the explanation, the loophole, the bright twist in the dark tale that reverses its course. Anyone would be. It's the reason I've had to narrate my own st…”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and parched earth. It is mud and it is manna. The real work of deep grief is making a home there.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“It’s hard to go. It’s scary and lonely…and half the time you’ll be wondering why the hell you’re in Cincinnati or Austin or North Dakota or Mongolia or wherever your melodious little finger-plucking heinie takes you. There will be boondoggles and discombobulated days, freaked-out nights and metaphor…”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“There are stars you haven't seen and loves you haven't loved. There's light you haven't felt and sunrises yet to dawn. There are dreams you haven't dreamt and days you haven't lived and nights you won't forget and flowers yet to grow. There is more to you that you have yet to know.”

— Gaby Comprés, Gaby Comprés: Poems

“There are stars you haven't seen and loves you haven't loved. There's light you haven't felt and sunrises yet to dawn. There are dreams you haven't dreamt and days you haven't lived and nights you won't forget and flowers yet to grow. There is more to you that you have yet to know.”

— , Gaby Comprés: Poems

“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives. Perhaps the reason you've not yet been able to forgive yourself is that you're still invested in your self-loathing.…”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Be brave enough to break your own heart.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“The fuck is your life. Answer it.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things