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Tiny Beautiful Things

This bestselling book from the author of Wild collects the best of The Rumpus's Dear Sugar advice columns plus never-before-published pieces. Rich with humor, insight, compassion—and absolute honesty—this book is a balm for everything lif

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Cheryl Strayed (12)

“Forgiveness bellows from the bottom of the canoe. There are doubts, dangers, unfathomable travesties. There are stories you'll learn if you're strong enough to travel there. One of them might cure you.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: forgiveness

“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Survival, Suffering, H4D-20

“You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: kindness, Love, H4D-12

“Go, even though you love him. Go, even though you can't imagine your life without him. Go, even though you're afraid of being alone.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Leaving, Breakups, H4D-10

“I can't say when you'll get love or how you'll find it or even promise you that you will. I can only say you are worthy of it and that it's never too much to ask for it.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, promises, Worth, H4D-9

“You aren't afraid of love. You're afraid of all the junk you've yoked to love. And you've convinced yourself that withholding one tiny word...will shield you from that junk. But it won't. We are obligated to the people we care about and who we allow to care about us, whether we say we love them or n…”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Afraid Of Love, Not Afraid Of Love, vulnerability

“We are obligated to the people we care about and who we allow to care about us, whether we say we love them or not.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Relationships, Obligation

“We're all savages inside. We all want to be the chosen, the beloved, the esteemed.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Why people are such dicks

“Just because you leave someone doesn't mean the relationship is over. It goes on.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of love.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Relationships

“The fuck is your life. Answer it.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

“I didn’t want to stay with my ex-husband, not at my core, even though whole swaths of me did. And 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. It’s a god we must obey, a force that brings us a…”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Philosophy