Letting go of expectation when it comes to one’s children is close to impossible. The entire premise of our love for them has to do with creating, fostering, and nurturing people who will outlive us. To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.

— Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Quotes

I’ll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

— Cheryl Strayed
Sad About Life Longing Life for Women

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. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.

— Cheryl Strayed
Failure Emotional Acceptance Meaningful Sad About Life

Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It’s up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

— Cheryl Strayed
Life is Hard Recovery Motivational for Women Stay Strong Don't Give Up

Jump high and hard with intention and heart.

— Cheryl Strayed
Motivational for Women

Be brave enough to break your own heart.

— Cheryl Strayed
Inspirational for Women Self-Love About Heart Broken Heart Heartbreak

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

So release yourself from that. Don’t be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word ‘love’ to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.

— Cheryl Strayed

Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!

— Cheryl Strayed
Monday Morning Happy Friday Strong Women Monday Friday

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

The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it’s almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which.

— Cheryl Strayed

We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know and actualize who we could be. The only difference is the distance of the leap.

— Cheryl Strayed
Distance

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 am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

— Cheryl Strayed

It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself.

— Cheryl Strayed

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

— Cheryl Strayed

Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it’s one thing and one thing only: it’s doing what you have to do.

— Cheryl Strayed
Fun

He hadn’t loved me well in the end, but he’d loved me well when it mattered.

— Cheryl Strayed

You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.

— Cheryl Strayed
Acceptance Obstacles Grateful Strong Women

I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.

— Cheryl Strayed

There are so many things to be tortured about, sweet pea. So many torturous things in this life. Don’t let the man who doesn’t love you be one of them.

— Cheryl Strayed
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