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...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn't cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
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, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Be brave enough to break your own heart.
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear
Be fearless enough to let love transform you.
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
...The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand named things in the Tao Te Ching's universe and then ten thousand more. Her love was full-throated and all-encompassing and unadorned. Every day she blew through her entire reserve.
Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
…love and rage are two channels of the same river.
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…we are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn't embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and that all we have to offer, in the end, is love.
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
…compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear
Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.
Cheryl Strayed
You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it.
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!
Cheryl Strayed, Torch