I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go.

- 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…

- Cheryl Strayed

Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here.

- Cheryl Strayed

The only way out of a hole is to climb out.

- Cheryl Strayed

Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of rid…

- Cheryl Strayed

Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy …

- Cheryl Strayed

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

- Cheryl Strayed

Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it wil…

- Cheryl Strayed

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiven…

- Cheryl Strayed