524 Quotes by Cheryl Strayed

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.

I’m going to be mad at you for the rest of my life.

Accept that this experience taught you something you didn’t want to know. Accept that sorrow and strife are part of even a joyful life. Accept that it’s going to take a long time for you to get that monster out of your chest. Accept that someday what pains you now will surely pain you less.

Addiction is a tunnel that wakes you up in the middle of the night. Everything else happens out here in the light.

That 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. And you have to work really, really, really hard to get there, but you can do it.

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you’re talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

Each and every one of them had the courage to say, This is who I am even if you’ll crucify me for it.

Boundaries teach people how to treat you and they teach you how to respect yourself. Every last one of us can do better than give up.

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.