524 Quotes by Cheryl Strayed

The truth was, in spite of all that, she’d been a spectacular mom. I knew it as I was growing up. I knew it in the days that she was dying. I knew it now. And I knew that was something. That it was a lot. I had plenty of friends who had moms who – no matter how long they lived – would never give them the all-encompassing love that my mother had given me.

I was working too hard to be afraid.

You will feel insecure and jealous. How much power you give those feelings is entirely up to you.

We aren’t poor,” my mother said, again and again. “Because we’re rich in love.

We are here to build the house.

It’s a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.

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.

There are stories hidden in the language we use, whether we’re conscious of them or not. They tell the truth of our hearts and minds.

Someone who isn’t embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and that all we have to offer, in the end, is love.