Cheryl Strayed Quote Explained: In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.

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The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.

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You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself. Explain

- Cheryl Strayed

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That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.

- Cheryl Strayed

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I had problems a therapist couldn’t solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

- Cheryl Strayed

Novelist

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Grief
Rooms

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But compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love that you’ve got. Explain

- Cheryl Strayed

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Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it’s very hard work.

- Cheryl Strayed

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In my perception, the world wasn’t a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

- Cheryl Strayed

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Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

- Cheryl Strayed

Novelist

· USA

Being True

In your twenties you’re becoming who you’re going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.

In your twenties you’re becoming who you’re going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.

The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself. Explain

That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.

I had problems a therapist couldn’t solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

But compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love that you’ve got. Explain

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it’s very hard work.

In my perception, the world wasn’t a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

You can consider this carved in stone: I rule out becoming Herman Van Rompuy’s successor.

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end. Explain

I really felt the growth of myself as a human being, as a person [becoming a mother].

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so. Explain

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure. Explain

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is! Explain

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. Explain

In your twenties you’re becoming who you’re going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.

In your twenties you’re becoming who you’re going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.

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