Cheryl Strayed Quotes

It's when I let myself get little that I tumble head over heels into joy.

Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.

One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

I've realised I can be happy.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

If I hold back any part of me, I suppress that much energy and potential. The question I want to ask myself now is not what behavior is good or bad, but in what ways would I express myself with greater energy if I didn't hold back.

To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

I just felt that I was going to fall apart if I didn't learn to be myself.

In the end, I want to try to be myself.

I have evolved over the years, just as we all have, but I definitely have stayed true to who I am.

I cannot be anyone else but Memphis. I tried that, and I was not happy with myself.

You are who you are, why should you deny your past?

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

I'm happy about who and what I am - and I can't wait to find out who I'll be tomorrow.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the version of yourself that you're supposed to be - like in God's eyes. It doesn't matter if you're half crazy, or eccentric, or whatever it is - that you have to be true to who you were born to be.

The greatest value comes from loving yourself for who you are. I've been teaching myself this for years, so I hope that by showing what I've learned, others can find the same freedom and joy I have.

The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

You must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point where you see it is necessary to forget all about yourself.

Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.

Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.