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When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. ROBERT PINSKY, "Samurai Song" Never never never give up. WINSTON CHURCHILL
— Cheryl Strayed
I think we underestimate the universe's desire to be kind to us.
— Cheryl Strayed
Who would I be if I didn't? Who would I be if I did?
— Cheryl Strayed
Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.
— Cheryl Strayed
Within the chaos of our shame and disappointment and rage there is meaning, and within that meaning is the possibility of rescue.
— Cheryl Strayed
Our minds are small, but our hearts are big.
— Cheryl Strayed
I saw no one, but, strange as it was, I missed no one. I
— Cheryl Strayed
But no one laughed. No one would. The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding.
— Cheryl Strayed
I know its a kick in the pants to hear that the problem is you, but it's also fucking fantastic. You are, after all, the only person you can change.
— Cheryl Strayed
You can learn along the way.
— Cheryl Strayed
Our parents are the primal source. We make our own lives, but our origin stories are theirs. They go back with us to the beginning of time.
— Cheryl Strayed
This is how you get unstuck. You reach.
— Cheryl Strayed
She was. She was imperfect. She made mistakes. But she was her best self more often than it's reasonable for any human to be.
— Cheryl Strayed
I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me.
— Cheryl Strayed
Then Darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
They realized that, in fact, the lie wasn't safe. That it threatened their existence more profoundly than the truth did.
— Cheryl Strayed
I chose Van Gogh.
— Cheryl Strayed
In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.
— Cheryl Strayed
She was a real human being laying herself bare, fearlessly, that we might come to understand the nature of our own predicaments.
— Cheryl Strayed
We should surround ourselves with people who feel like abundance.
— Cheryl Strayed
There's always a sunrise and always a sunset and it's up to you to choose to be there for it,' said my mother. 'Put yourself in the way of beauty.
— Cheryl Strayed
I didn't want to hurt for him anymore, to wonder whether in leaving him I'd made a mistake, to torment myself with all the ways I'd wronged him.
— Cheryl Strayed
Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could.
— Cheryl Strayed
We don't reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. We start at the bottom and climb up. Blood is involved.
— Cheryl Strayed
You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.
— Cheryl Strayed
Until, that is, a tree stopped me in my path.
— Cheryl Strayed
Run toward the darkness, sweet peas, and shine.
— Cheryl Strayed
I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.
— Cheryl Strayed
Reading's my reward at the end of the day
— Cheryl Strayed
An REI worker had encouraged me to buy a box of Spenco 2nd Skin - gel patches meant to treat burns that also happened to be great for blisters.
— Cheryl Strayed
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
This is not "how your story ends". It's simply where it takes a turn you didn't expect.
— Cheryl Strayed
Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid.
— Cheryl Strayed
I was trying to find a new home in the world.
— Cheryl Strayed
Ask yourself: What is the best I can do? And then do that.
— Cheryl Strayed
Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It's one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before.
— Cheryl Strayed
A caldera, it's called - a sort of mountain in reverse. A mountain that's had its very heart removed.
— Cheryl Strayed
I mean: be your best, most gigantic self.
— Cheryl Strayed
It was April in Minneapolis and snowing, the flakes coming down in thick swirls enchanting the city
— Cheryl Strayed
It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.
— Cheryl Strayed
Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
— Cheryl Strayed
I was working too hard to be afraid.
— Cheryl Strayed
One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.
— Cheryl Strayed
The thing that would make me believe that hiking the Pacific Crest Trail was my way back to the person I used to be.
— Cheryl Strayed
Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.
— Cheryl Strayed
It's wrong that this is required of you. It's wrong that your son died. It will always be wrong.
— Cheryl Strayed
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
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
The question about who you will love and when you will love him is out of your hands. It's a mystery that you can't solve.
— Cheryl Strayed
Do you like to read?" Christine asked. "That's what we do when we come up here. That's our idea of relaxation.
— Cheryl Strayed
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
Jean-Paul Sartre famously said that "hell is other people," which is true enough, but truer still is hell is other people's boyfriends
— Cheryl Strayed
The unifying theme is resilience and faith. The unifying theme is being a warrior and a motherfucker. It is not fragility. It's strength. It's nerve.
— Cheryl Strayed
I know it's hard to write, darling. But it's harder not to. The only way you'll find out if you "have it in you" is to get to work and see if you do.
— Cheryl Strayed
But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.
— Cheryl Strayed
My mom said there's a sunrise and a sunset every day and you can choose to be there or not. You can put yourself in the way of beauty.
— Cheryl Strayed
There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the surface of me like a bruise.
— Cheryl Strayed
waiting for a friend to get off
— Cheryl Strayed
She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.
— Rebecca West
But the thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.
— Cheryl Strayed
I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.
— Cheryl Strayed
Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding
— Cheryl Strayed
No one can write like Cheryl Strayed.
— Ann Hood
I didn't look like a woman who might need twelve condoms.
— Cheryl Strayed
Every time I set foot on that trail, I feel grateful for the PCTA for doing the work it does to protect and preserve it
— Cheryl Strayed
Bagby Hot Springs.
— Cheryl Strayed
Humans are beautifully imperfect and complex. We're horny, ass-saving, ego-driven drug fiends, among other, more noble things.
— Cheryl Strayed
You don't need a reason to leave.
— Cheryl Strayed
When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.
— Sylvester Stallone
I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently.
— Andy Dick
How strange and glorious it was to be anchored to nothing, to be free, in some particular way, for the first time in my life.
— Cheryl Strayed
I put her burnt bones into my mouth and swallowed them whole.
— Cheryl Strayed
The good things aren't a movie. There isn't enough to make a reel. The good things are a poem, barely longer than a haiku. There
— Cheryl Strayed
You can't squeeze blood from a turnip.
— Cheryl Strayed
I didn't know where I was going until I got there. It
— Cheryl Strayed
This is not the moment to wilt into the underbrush of your insecurities. You've earned the right to grow.
— Cheryl Strayed
We yogied this from day hikers for you.
— Cheryl Strayed
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
When I have something to say that's particularly hard to say, I often write it down first.
— Cheryl Strayed
it with their fingers out of my hands,
— Cheryl Strayed
Accept that someday what pains you now will surely pain you less.
— Cheryl Strayed
I'd set out to hike the trail so that I could reflect upon my life, to think about everything that had broken me and make myself whole again.
— Cheryl Strayed
Being with him felt unbearable, but being with anyone else did too.
— Cheryl Strayed
It really was dreadful to be so different from other people... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were being strayed from another star.
— L.M. Montgomery
Tonight, I won't dream, because nobodyhas held me and no hands have strayed and even
though I'm drunk with love, my arms are empty. — Melissa Lee-Houghton
I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild.
— Cheryl Strayed
quitting. But now, only ten days out, I was done. I wanted
— Cheryl Strayed
IMAGINE WHIRLED PEAS
— Cheryl Strayed