“Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.” To know that seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water was enough. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake.” What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding.”
“It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. What if I already was?” “What if I forgave myself? “We are all entitled to our opinions and religious beliefs, but we are not entitled to make shit up and then use the shit we made up to oppress other people.” What if I was never redeemed? I didn't know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity. You have to endure it.
Look hard. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. I thought. What destroys what. Do you have any advice of what not to do?
You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.”
We’d love your help. What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I'd done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do?
... ― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar. Goodreads helps you follow your favorite authors. What if heroin taught me something? “I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. “I didn't get to grow up and pull away from her and bitch about her with my friends and confront her about the things I'd wished she'd done differently and then get older and understand that she had done the best she could and realize that what she had done was pretty damn good and take her fully back into my arms again.
Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. Her death had obliterated that. It's just there, and you have to survive it. “You give a lot of great advice about what to do.
Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of “The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. “You cannot convince people to love you. What if I was sorry, but if I could go back in time I wouldn't do anything differently than I had done? Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. “It was all unknown to me then, as I sat on that white bench on the day I finished my hike.
It can be light as the hug we give a friend or heavy as the sacrifices we make for our children. The long meandering walks. We’d love your help.
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“You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. 952 likes. I thought.
It had cut me short at the very heigh of my youthful arrogance.
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