Cheryl Strayed Quotes

The highly-acclaimed author of best-selling books, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, and Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, Cheryl Strayed continues to touch readers through her fine and inspiring works. She is not just a novelist, but also a memoirist, essayist and a podcast host. Because of her flair in writing, she has published essays in several notable magazines, including The Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, New York Times Magazine and more. Her other popular books are Torch (2006) and Brave Enough (2015). Here are some written outtakes from her books that are worth the praise.

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

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But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first. — Tiny Beautiful Things

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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. — Tiny Beautiful Things

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Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore. – Tiny Beautiful Things

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The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back. — Wild

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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. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else. – Tiny Beautiful Things

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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. — Tiny Beautiful Things

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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. — Tiny Beautiful Things

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How wild it was, to let it be. — Wild

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In my perception, the world wasn’t a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story. — Wild

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Cheryl Stayed recognition as a writer started with her first book, Torch, which was published in 2006. The novel gained positive critical reviews that paved way for her to be a finalist of the Great Lakes Book Award. Because of the success, Strayed continued with writing and eventually finished her second book, a memoir titled Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2012. This one was included on the New York Times Best Seller list during its debut, wherein it was translated into 30 different languages. On the same year, she published her third book, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, which was also distributed internationally. Her fourth book, Brave Enough, was released three years later.