Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

by Cheryl Strayed

Trust yourself. It’s Sugar’s golden rule. Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

One of the things that struck me over and over again as I wrote the columns in this book is how often people already knew what they should do as they sought my advice. The trouble is, they were afraid to admit to that, to listen to the deepest, truest voice inside of them and act on it. I relate! Trusting yourself can be scary and, if you’ve spent your life relying other people to set your course, it can even feel like the wrong thing to do. But it isn’t. Whenever I’ve trusted myself and moved in the direction of my truest desires, I’ve done the right thing, even if it was hard to do. Whenever I haven’t, there was a price to pay for it.