Cheryl Strayed Quotes About Journey

Quotes about: Journey

• I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Strong, Journey, Brave

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.50, Atlantic Books Ltd

• I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she was going to die. "I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me." "Oh, Mom," was all I could say as I stroked her hand. I was too young to say anything else."

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Mom, Daughter

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.241, Atlantic Books Ltd

• I set my toothbrush down, then leaned into the mirror and stared into my own eyes. I could feel myself disintegrating inside myself like a past-bloom flower in the wind. Every time I moved a muscle, another petal of me blew away. Please, I thought. Please.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Flower

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.40, Atlantic Books Ltd

• He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.
  Being near Tom and Doug at night kept me from having to say to myself I am not afraid whenever I heard a branch snap in the dark or the wind shook so fiercely it seemed something bad was about to happen. But I wasn't out here to keep myself from having to say I am not afraid. I'd come, I'd realized, to stare that fear down, to stare everything down, really - all that I'd done to myself and all that had been done to me. I couldn't do that while tagging along with someone else.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Dark

• When I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror, watching myself solemnly brush my teeth. I tried to feel something like excitement but came up only with a morose unease. Every now and then I could see myself-truly see myself-and a sentence would come to me, thundering like a god into my head, and as I saw myself then in front of that tarnished mirror what came was 'the woman with the hole in her heart'. That was me.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Morning, Life Changing

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.40, Atlantic Books Ltd

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