Cheryl Strayed Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Motivational, Change, Anxiety

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.128, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. That perhaps being amidst the undesecrated beauty of the wilderness meant I too could be undesecrated, regardless of the regrettable things I'd done to others or myself or the regrettable things that had been done to me. Of all the things I'd been skeptical about, I didn't feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Effort, Done, Pushing

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.128, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost

  Cheryl Strayed

  Knitting, Sweaters, Hiking

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.198, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yard on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling it until the entire sweater unraveled into a pile of string. Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Knitting, Sweaters, Hiking

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