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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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 (90)

“You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Inspirational, warrior for love, Be Kind

“The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Inspirational

“In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.”

— Cheryl Strayed, books.google.com

Tagged: Twenties, 20s, H4D-52

“I hope when people ask what you’re going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you’ll say: ‘Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire;’ or maybe just: ‘Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.’ And then smi…”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Bookworm, Artist, writer, Creative, Humanities vs. Science

“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Convince, Desire, Fate, Normality

“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Moving Forward, Acceptance, Defeat, Letting Go

“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Don't Force Love, Love Yourself, True Love, Inspirational

“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Acceptance, Thought, realization, Risk

“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Everything will be okay, Hope, Letting Go, Acceptance

“Don’t listen to those people who suggest you should be ‘over it’ by now. The people who squawk the loudest about such things have almost never had to get over anything. Or at least not anything that was genuinely, mind..soul-crushingly life altering.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Loudness, Noise, Talkative

“It is not so incomprehensible as you pretend, sweet pea. Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as the hug we give a friend or heavy as the sacrifices we make for our children. It can be romantic, platonic, familial, fleeting, everlasting,…”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Honest Love, True Love, Romantic, Platonic, Betrayal

“Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to do. Don’t stay when you know you should go or go when you know you should stay. Don’t fight when you should hold steady or hold steady when you should fight. Don’t focus on the short-term fun instead of the long-term fall out. Don’t surr…”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Advice, Joy, INFP

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Advice By Cheryl

“The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Advice By Cheryl

“You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Advice By Cheryl

“What’s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the commission made up. It’s up to you to make your life. Take what you have and stack it up like a tower of teetering blocks. Build your dream around that.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Advice By Cheryl

“It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Advice By Cheryl

“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Advice By Cheryl

“Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Advice By Cheryl

“Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Advice By Cheryl