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“You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts. You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you've got. You have to find people who love you truly and love you back with the same truth. But that's all.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough

“The thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough

“If it is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough

“You go on by doing the best you can.

You go on by being generous.

You go on by being true.

You go on by offering comfort to others who can't go on.

You go on by allowing the unbearable days to pass and by allowing the pleasure in other days.

You go on by finding a channel for your love and another for your rage.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough