Karen

“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of being. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes

“It was wrong. It was so relentlessly awful that my mother had been taken from me. I couldn’t even hate her properly. I didn’t get to grow up and pull away from her and bitch about her with my friends and confront her about the things I wished she’d done differently and then get older and understand that she did the best she could and realize that what she did was pretty damn good and take her fully back into my arms again. Her death had obliterated that. It had obliterated me. It had cut me short at the very height of my youthful arrogance. It had forced me to instantly grow up and forgive her every motherly fault at the same time that it kept me forever a child, my life both ended and begun in that premature place where we’d left off. She was my mother, but I was motherless. I was trapped by her but utterly alone. She would always be the empty bowl that no one could fill. I’d have to fill it myself again”
― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes

“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

“Perhaps being among the undesecrated beauty of the wilderness meant I, too, could be undesecrated...the wilderness had a clarity that included me.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough