524 Quotes by Cheryl Strayed

I had problems a therapist couldn’t solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

Be the captain. You are the captain. Take the ball and run.

Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic.

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.

Every now and then I could see myself – truly see myself – and a sentence would come to me, thundering like a god into my head, and as I saw myself then in front of that tarnished mirror what came was the woman with the hole in her heart.

We don’t reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. We start at the bottom and climb up. Blood is involved.

The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in life. For some of you, those things have already happened. Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.

The people in my life were like the BandAids that had blown away in the desert wind that first day on the trail. They scattered and then they were gone.

The PCT had taught me what a mile was.