"For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters."

“We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don't know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home.”

“In my prime I could have handled Michael Jordan. Of course, he would be only 12 years old.”

“The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.”

Source : Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.21, Atlantic Books Ltd

“Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange.”

“What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.”

“The word "God" is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness -- a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs.”

“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”

“I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road.”

Source : Source: dailydead.com