Cheryl Strayed citations (67 citations)

Variante: Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“The father’s job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse to ride into battle when it’s necessary to do so. If you don’t get that from your father, you have to teach yourself.”

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“Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.”

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

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here.”

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“I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.”

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

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“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.”

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“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves…”

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“But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.”

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

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“Wanting to leave is enough.”

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

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“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.”

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“So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love' to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.”

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

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“[Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually living in became too lonely or harsh or difficult to bear.”

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“…the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen to me, I thought. The worst thing already had.”

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

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“You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.”

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

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“Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid.”

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“That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.”

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“There are so many things to be tortured about, sweet pea. So many torturous things in this life. Don't let the man who doesn't love you be one of them.”

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Variante: There are so many torturous things in this life. Don't let a man who doesn't love you be one of them.
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“It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.”

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

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“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.”

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

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