The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it.Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
Trust yourself. It's Sugar's golden rule. Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go.Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards.Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
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.Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it.Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery.Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
Acceptance is a small, quiet room.Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
Practicing accepting things as they come to you-- accepting them fully, exactly as they are-- can teach you how freeing it can be to exist in the world while simultaneously striving to improve it.Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
Don't let your realization of the imperfection of life prevent you from living it fully. Just plunge on, carrying your baggage with you as you go.Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
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.Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things