Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave.Cheryl Strayed
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.Cheryl Strayed
I was a free spirit, I said. It would take more than a backpack to tame me.Cheryl Strayed
I didn't feel sad or happy. I didn't feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I'd done wrong, in getting myself here, I'd done right.Cheryl Strayed
I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.Cheryl Strayed
I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story.Cheryl Strayed
The place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.Cheryl Strayed
But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.Cheryl Strayed
I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, was born of a story I told myself, and so I chose to tell myself a different story.Cheryl Strayed
The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.Cheryl Strayed