Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul

by Cheryl Strayed

There isn’t a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.

The people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity. They’ve taken into their hearts the idea that there is enough for all of us, that success will manifest itself in different ways for different people, that keeping the faith is more important than cashing the check.

Art isn’t anecdote. It’s the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives.

Don’t own other people’s crap. The world would be a better place if we all did that.

You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding.