CHERYL STRAYED QUOTES TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS

“The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it.”

“Forgiveness doesn’t just sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.”

“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It’s just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.”

“The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.”

“You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.”

“We can’t control most of what happens to us in life, but we can control how we respond.”

“Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.”

“Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.”

“You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding.”

“You must be willing to do the work that you might not get the results you want, because chances are, you won’t.”

“You go on by doing the best you can. You go on by being generous. You go on by being true. You go on by offering comfort to others who can’t go on.”

“You let time pass. That’s the cure. You survive the days. You float like a rabid ghost through the weeks. You cry and wallow and lament and scratch your way back up through the months. And then one day you find yourself alone on a bench in the sun and you close your eyes and lean your head back and you realize you’re okay.”

“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule.”

“It isn’t hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.”

“You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success.” THOMAS EDISON QUOTE ABOUT NOT GIVING UP

“Be brave enough to break your own heart.”

“You have the right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your body and listening to its needs.”

“We cannot control the things life does to us, but we can control the way we choose to respond.”

“Seeking out the experiences that stretch you will change you in ways that excite you.”

“You can’t fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win.”

“Embrace the inexplicable beauty that comes from all of the unexpected and unsought.”

“Rest and be patient in your journey.”

“You don’t have to be fearless. Just don’t let fear stop you.”

“The more we explore and understand our own suffering, the more it becomes possible to extend the same grace to others.”

“Stay open. Stay humble. Stay teachable.”

“You didn’t fail your life – not even once.”

“If a tsunami is coming, you might as well go for a swim.”

“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule.”

“There is no map. You must make your own journey.”