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

Difference Distance Risk
Be brave enough to break your own heart.
CHERYL STRAYED

Brave Enough Heart
Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!
CHERYL STRAYED

Hard Incredible Work
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

Bored Fun Sometimes
I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.
CHERYL STRAYED

Ball Free Spirit
…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.
CHERYL STRAYED

Believe Mother Safety
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

Insane Magazine Taught
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

Beauty Mom Sunset Wild
There’s no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.
CHERYL STRAYED

Dying Novelist Way
He hadn’t loved me well in the end, but he’d loved me well when it mattered.
CHERYL STRAYED

End Matter Well

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