…but thinking about it didn’t do a thing. Thinking about it was a long dive into a bucket of shit that didn’t have a bottom.
– Cheryl Strayed
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- Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves… – Cheryl Strayed
- Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It’s one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before. – Cheryl Strayed
- To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become. – Cheryl Strayed
- Be fearless enough to let love transform you. – Cheryl Strayed
- What if I forgave myself even though I’d done something I shouldn’t have? – Cheryl Strayed
- My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. – Cheryl Strayed
- There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the surface of me like a bruise. – Cheryl Strayed
- I put her burnt bones into my mouth and swallowed them whole. – Cheryl Strayed
- Grief doesn’t have a face. – Cheryl Strayed
- A beloved daughter who now spent holidays alone. – Cheryl Strayed
- My mother’s last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love. – Cheryl Strayed
- There are so many torturous things in this life. Don’t let a man who doesn’t love you be one of them. – Cheryl Strayed
- But compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love that you’ve got. – Cheryl Strayed
- And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade. – Cheryl Strayed
- You’ve earned the right to grow. You’re going to have to carry the water yourself. – Cheryl Strayed
- The place of true healing is a fierce place. It’s a giant place. it’s a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light. – Cheryl Strayed
- It’s a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds. – Cheryl Strayed
- Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true. – Cheryl Strayed
- He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life. – Cheryl Strayed
- In my perception, the world wasn’t a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story. – Cheryl Strayed
- It was really over, I thought. There was no way to go back, to make it stay. There was never that. – Cheryl Strayed
- The sky didn’t wonder where it was. – Cheryl Strayed
- Write like a mother????er. – Cheryl Strayed
- When you’re speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice. – Cheryl Strayed
- I like a girl with a substantial bottom,’ said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred. – Christopher Moore
- The bottom-line is, that nothing should affect your bottom-line. – Mamur Mustapha
- The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. – Paul Hawken
- Positive thinking is better than negative thinking and… No thinking is far better then positive thinking – Ed Strachar
- Spending longer thinking about the problem before you dive in is likely to lead to higher levels of creativity in the final product. – Jeremy Dean
- I knew I was in deep shit. I didn’t know how deep-”just that I still hadn’t touched bottom. – Sol Luckman
- If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be. – Stephen Clarke
- To be able to shit on people before they get a chance to shit on you. That’s power. – Sister Souljah
- Know what a symbol is?…Shit that stands for shit. – Christina Baker Kline
- I’m not one of those academics that don’t do shit but reads about it. The difference is, I do shit. I have a proof of concept and it works. – Ron Finley
- If you start to smell some of the shit, you start smelling all of the shit – Doug Stanhope
- It’s like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit is that, but white people’s shit? – Miles Davis
- I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket. – Ernest Hemingway
- Can’t nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. – Toni Morrison
- Shit will always be Shit! No amount of perfume can make it stink less – Tahira Abrar
- Fifty grand for a paper bucket? Well it was all about context, you see. – Paul Christensen