Cheryl Strayed Quotes

I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.

Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation.

We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

I think that life is about growth. You continue to grow and progress, hopefully.

Personally, for me in my life, I think every journey should be an ongoing journey, for anyone.

Life's journey - it unfolds for you as you are ready for it.

My journey was a very organic journey.

When you put a seed in the ground, it doesn't stop growing after eight hours. It keeps going every minute that it's in the earth. We, too, need to keep growing every moment of every day that we are on this earth.

You grow up and share life experiences. That's one of the best parts of this business. You share how you're mellowing out and your new sense of self.

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

My life is just a never-ending work in progress.

We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life.

We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.

In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.

Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.

I am a work in progress dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding.

You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.

Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make.

It takes a long time to fully become who you are.

I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.

I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.