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Cheryl Strayed

"Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. 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."

Source : Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd

Cheryl Strayed

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“Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.”
“It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.”
“I would never be happy with just coming to TV tapings, not working house shows, and just getting by, staying in the shadows. I'm proud of the fact that I can turn chickenshit to chicken salad.”
“Love never comes with a brochure of rules and regulations, a prospectus with guides of what is acceptable and what is abominable. Itâ€™s a standard to follow your heart, and thatâ€™s what I did and if doing that hurt you, then Iâ€™m sorryâ€¦ sorry for coming in your life and wasting your time, for causing you an anguish so great that you could not bear the sight of me. Today, I am proud to stand up and honour myself and proclaim to the worldâ€¦ yes, I loved someone more than myself. I loved someone truly, madly, deeply!”

Source : FaceBook post by Faraaz Kazi from Sep 16, 2012
“If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.”
“I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.”
“The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.”

Source : "Staking Out The Globe" by David M. Kennedy, www.nytimes.com. February 21, 1988.
“There is no greater disease than the loss of hope.”

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