Cheryl Strayed

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Quotes...

• “Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...”
• “Trust that all you’ve learned was worth learning, no matter what answer you have or do not have about what practical use it has in your life. Let whatever mysterious starlight that guided you this far guide you onward into the crazy beauty that awaits.”
• “Stop asking yourself what you want, what you desire, what interests you. Ask yourself instead: What has been given to me? Ask: What do I have to give back? Then give it.”
  
• “Transformation doesn’t ask that you stop being you. It demands that you find a way back to the authenticity and strength that’s already inside of you. You only have to bloom.”
  
• “Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It’s the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It’s worthy of all the hullabaloo.”
• “Desperation is unsustainable.”
• You will learn a lot from yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery.”
• “This is not the moment to wilt into the underbrush of your insecurities. You’ve earned the right to grow.”
• “Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.”
• “The particularity of our problems can be made bearable only through the recognition
• “Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding.”
• “Every last one of us can do better than give up.”
• “Be brave enough to break your own heart.”
• “It’s folly to measure your success in money or fame. Success is measured only by your ability to say yes to these two questions: Did I do the work I needed to do? Did I give it everything I had?”
• “Trust your gut. Forgive yourself. Be grateful”
• “We don’t reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. We start at the bottom and climb up.”
  
• “Vulnerability is strength.”
  
• “This is not how your story ends. It's simply where it takes a turn you didn't expect.”
  

“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.”

“Transformation doesn’t ask that you stop being you. It demands that you find a way back to the authenticity and strength that’s already inside of you. You only have to bloom.”

Quote by Cheryl Strayed