524 Quotes by Cheryl Strayed

You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts.

I looked up at the blue sky, feeling, in fact, a burst of energy, but mostly feeling my mother’s presence, remembering why it was that I’d thought I could hike this trail.

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.

Do you believe in reincarnation?” I asked as we looked together at the intricate drawings, reading bits about them in the paragraph of text on each page. “I don’t,” he said. “I believe we’re here once and what we do matters.

To believe that I didn’t need to reach with my bare hands anymore. To know that seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water was enough. That it was everything. It was my life – like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.

Our parents are the primal source. We make our own lives, but our origin stories are theirs. They go back with us to the beginning of time.

You go on by finding a channel for your love and another for your rage.

Maybe I was more alone than anyone in the whole wide world. Maybe that was okay.

There are so many torturous things in this life. Don’t let a man who doesn’t love you be one of them.