"I walked all those miles, I learned all those lessons. It's as if my new life was the gift I got at the end of a long struggle."

-- Cheryl Strayed

#Struggle Quotes #Long Quotes #New Life Quotes

“When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.”
“These two enormous forces â€” truth and meaning â€” are at war in today's world....And something sooner or later has to give.”
“If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.”
“You will hardly know who I am or what I mean”
“I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.”
“Teddy grinned again. 'Truths are dangerous,' he said. -'Then why are you writing them in a book?' -'To catch them between the pages,' said Teddy, 'and trap them before they disappear.' -'If they're dangerous, why not let them disappear?' -'Because when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.”
“You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.”

Source : Josephine Humphreys (2000). “Dreams of Sleep”, p.122, Penguin
“What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.”

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