When you’re speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.
– Cheryl Strayed
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- It was really over, I thought. There was no way to go back, to make it stay. There was never that. – Cheryl Strayed
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- The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means. – Barbara Marciniak
- I will have my serpent’s tongue – my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence. – Gloria E Anzalda
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- When you gain higher consciousness, your consciousness becomes universal and you become ageless, endless, and universal. – Debasish Mridha
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- A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. – Tom Stoppard