Being Strayed Quotes

#1. It really was dreadful to be so different from other people... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were being strayed from another star.

L.M. Montgomery

#2. It was really dreadful to be so different from other people ... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

L.M. Montgomery

#3. The unifying theme is resilience and faith. The unifying theme is being a warrior and a motherfucker. It is not fragility. It's strength. It's nerve.

Cheryl Strayed

#4. Being with him felt unbearable, but being with anyone else did too.

Cheryl Strayed

#5. Transformation doesn't ask that you stop being you. It demands that you find a way back to the authenticity and strength that's already inside of you. You only have to bloom.

Cheryl Strayed

#6. In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a trifle I failed to be, recapturing, so that I may hurl myself into them as into dark pits, those moments when I strayed through the trap-ridden compartments of a subterranean sky

Jean Genet

#7. Just as not all butterflies produce a hurricane, not all outbreaks of bubonic plague produce a Renaissance.

Eric Weiner

#8. That perhaps being amidst the undesecrated beauty of the wilderness meant I too could be undesecrated, regardless of what I'd lost or what had been taken from me, regardless of the regrettable things I'd done to others or myself or the regrettable things that had been done to me.

Cheryl Strayed

#9. My connection with him and his gloriously unfractured life only seemed to increase my pain. It wasn't his fault. Being with him felt unbearable, but being with anyone else did too. The only person I could bear to be with was the most unbearable person of all: my mother.

Cheryl Strayed

#10. One of the things that happens a lot is you get to see how many times things happen, literal things happen and how they are completely metaphors for where you are. It's like a mirror is being held up just about an inch to your face.

Cheryl Strayed

#11. It's never boring in makeup.

Dave Bautista

#12. Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

Agatha Christie

#13. She was a real human being laying herself bare, fearlessly, that we might come to understand the nature of our own predicaments.

Cheryl Strayed

#14. My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.

Haile Gebrselassie

#15. Every time Roscoe tried to think back along the line of events that had led to his being in a place where there was no trees to lean against, he strayed off the line and soon got all tangled up in his thinking. It was probably better not to try and think back down the line of life.

Larry McMurtry

#16. Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

Matthew Vaughn

#17. And people turn to internet with the hope that in this virtual world, where real identity need not be disclosed, they will find someone before whom they could be their true self,without any pretensions and get an opportunity to release the pent-up emotions and feel light.

Chitralekha Paul

#18. Lucy: I don't understand men.
Nettie: What is there to understand? If you feed 'em regular-like and give 'em a bit of 'sugar' now and then, they're easy enough. And if they don't behave, you just toss 'em out on their arses. That's what I always say.

Sabrina Jeffries

#19. Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

Cheryl Strayed

#20. Dust particles panicked and swarmed in the light.

Ali Shaw

#21. Nothing remains intact without effort. Repetition of formulas does not assure the transmission of thought. It is not safe to entrust a doctrinal treasure to the passivity of memory. Intelligence must play a part in its conservation, rediscovering it, so to speak, in the process.

Henri De Lubac

#22. I personally believe it's really important for the students to experience a particular culture.

Robert J. Dolan

#23. So much of being able to hike the PCT depended upon mind control: the stout decision to move forward, regardless.

Cheryl Strayed

#24. Hello, fear. Thank you for being here. You're my indication that I'm doing what I need to do.

Cheryl Strayed

#25. Fear of being alone is not a good reason to stay

Cheryl Strayed

#26. Being so alone and so silent for so long gave me the opportunity to see how our brains actually work. I think of that so often in my regular life, as I'm always interacting with people or with my computer or phone.

Cheryl Strayed