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Cheryl Strayed Quotes

... the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy Picture Quote #1

I didn’t feel sad or happy. I didn’t feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I’d done wrong, in getting myself here, I’d done right Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

My mother’s last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love Picture Quote #1

Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn’t long before I actually wasn’t afraid Picture Quote #1

You have to pay your own electric bill. 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. But that’s all Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you’re talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated Picture Quote #1

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness Picture Quote #1

Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it’s one thing and one thing only: it’s doing what you have to do Picture Quote #1

You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one Picture Quote #1

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it Picture Quote #1

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Art isn’t anecdote. It’s the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives Picture Quote #1

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened Picture Quote #1

The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods Picture Quote #1

What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn’t have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was? Picture Quote #1

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me Picture Quote #1

I walked all those miles, I learned all those lessons. It’s as if my new life was the gift I got at the end of a long struggle Picture Quote #1

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I’d walk and think about my entire life. I’d find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous Picture Quote #1

Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else Picture Quote #1

The people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity Picture Quote #1

We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know and actualize who we could be. The only difference is the distance of the leap Picture Quote #1

People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there’s no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just have to push forward. You have to follow your vision and hope for the best. You have to write for love Picture Quote #1

The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it’s almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which Picture Quote #1

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There is a path toward the light. The one that goes blink, blink, blink inside your chest when you know what you’re doing is right. Listen to it. Trust it. Let it make you stronger than you are Picture Quote #1

I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right Picture Quote #1

I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go Picture Quote #1

She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before she’d made her confession, though she didn’t regret having confessed. Perhaps that was what had been wrong with her all along. Now that the lie wasn’t between them anymore, maybe she could love him again Picture Quote #1

Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night Picture Quote #1

I receive a lot of letters like yours. Most go on in length, describing all sorts of maddening situations and communications in bewildered detail, but in each there is the same question at its core: Can I convince the person about whom I am crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no Picture Quote #1

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... the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) I didn’t feel sad or happy. I didn’t feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I’d done wrong, in getting myself here, I’d done right (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) 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 Quotes) My mother’s last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn’t long before I actually wasn’t afraid (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) You have to pay your own electric bill. 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. But that’s all (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) 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 Quotes) The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you’re talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it’s one thing and one thing only: it’s doing what you have to do (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) Art isn’t anecdote. It’s the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn’t have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was? (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) I walked all those miles, I learned all those lessons. It’s as if my new life was the gift I got at the end of a long struggle (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) I’d walk and think about my entire life. I’d find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) The people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know and actualize who we could be. The only difference is the distance of the leap (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there’s no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just have to push forward. You have to follow your vision and hope for the best. You have to write for love (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it’s almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) There is a path toward the light. The one that goes blink, blink, blink inside your chest when you know what you’re doing is right. Listen to it. Trust it. Let it make you stronger than you are (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before she’d made her confession, though she didn’t regret having confessed. Perhaps that was what had been wrong with her all along. Now that the lie wasn’t between them anymore, maybe she could love him again (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night (Cheryl Strayed Quotes) I receive a lot of letters like yours. Most go on in length, describing all sorts of maddening situations and communications in bewildered detail, but in each there is the same question at its core: Can I convince the person about whom I am crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no (Cheryl Strayed Quotes)

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