Brave Enough: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes

by Cheryl Strayed

Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.

Eight of the ten things you have decided about yourself at the age of twenty will, over time, prove to be false. The other two things will prove to be so true that you’ll look back in twenty years and howl.

Stop asking yourself what you want, what you desire, what interests you. Ask yourself instead: What has been given to me? Ask: What do I have to give back? Then give it.