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Cheryl Strayed is an American writer known for her memoir ”Wild,” which documents her solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. Here are some notable quotes from her:
1. ”Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves.”
2. ”It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets.”
3. ”You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding.”
4. ”Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.”
5. ”The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.”
6. ”You go on by doing the best you can. You go on by being generous. You go on by being true. You go on by offering comfort to others who can’t go on.”
7. ”The thing about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, the thing that was so profound to me that summer—and yet also, like most things, so very simple—was how few choices I had and how often I had to do the thing I least wanted to do. How there was no escape or denial.”
8. ”Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.”
9. ”The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.”
10. ”You are not a terrible person for wanting to break up with someone you love. You don’t need a reason to leave. Wanting to leave is enough. Leaving doesn’t mean you’re incapable of real love or that you’ll never love anyone else again. It doesn’t mean you’re morally bankrupt or psychologically demented or a nymphomaniac. It means you wish to change the terms of one particular relationship. That’s all. Be brave enough to break your own heart.”
These quotes reflect Strayed’s wisdom, resilience, and introspection, as well as her deep connection to nature and the transformative power of self-discovery through challenging experiences.