"Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer."

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Pam Houston

#Courageous Quotes

“I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.”
“I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.”
“The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.”

Source : David Riesman (1955). “Selected essays from Individualism reconsidered”
“Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.”
“If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.”
“Words and music equally important. But the way to get what I'm looking for is different in each case. I have something specific I'm hoping for with the words and the music, and the way to get the words the way I like them is to take a long time, and the way to get the music I like it is to not let me or anyone else get in the way of it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give.”
“But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.”

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