Tiny Beautiful Things Quotes

“There are so many tiny revolutions in a life, a million ways we have to circle around ourselves to grow and change and be okay.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

“Compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all of the love that you’ve got.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

“We went on and on and on, from snap to clap and back again, raging and raging, until finally there was nothing to do but raise our arms in surrender and admit that the rain was gone.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

“Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

“And in the meanwhile, cultivate an understanding of a bunch of the other things that the best, sanest people on the planet know: that life is long, that people both change and remain the same, that every last one of us will need to fuck up and be forgiven, that we’re all just walking and walking and walking and trying to find our way, that all roads lead eventually to the mountaintop.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

“What do you do when you don't know what to do about something?

I talk to Mr. Sugar and my friends. I make lists. I attempt to analyze the situation from the perspective of my "best self"-the one that's generous, reasonable, forgiving, loving, bighearted, and grateful. I think really hard about what I'll wish I did a year from now. I map out the consequences of the various actions I could take. I ask what my motivations are, what my desires are, what my fears are, what I have to lose, and what I have to gain. I move toward the light even if it's a hard direction in which to move. I trust myself. I keep the faith. I mess up sometimes.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

“I happen to believe that America is dying of loneliness, that we, as a people have bought into the false dream of convenience, and turned away from a deep engagement with our internal lives.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

“I believe there is something bigger than our individual selves that we can touch when we live our lives with integrity, compassion, and love.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

“Oh, the dream. The goddamned man + baby dream. Written by the High Commission on Heterosexual Love and Sexual Reproduction and practised by couples across the land, the dream's a bitch if you're a maternally inclined straight female and not living it by the age of thirty-seven - a situation of a spermicidally toxic flavour.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

“Each and every one of those people rose at a moment in their lives - one that is very much like this moment in your life, "suffocated" and at that moment they chose to tell the truth about themselves instead of staying "safe" inside the lie.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

“There is a world of people out there who will love you for who you are. A whole, vibrant, fucked-up, happy, conflicted and joyous mass of people.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things