It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees."ġ0. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. "If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”ĩ. “Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. We do not help them: we tell them that they need to get help.”Ĩ. And if they don’t - if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live - well, then we pathologize their pain we call their suffering a disease. “If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. “Go, because you want to. Because wanting to leave is enough.”ħ. “The reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.”Ħ. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. "It was my life - like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. “The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it.”Ĥ. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. “Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? 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? What if I was sorry, but if I could go back in time I wouldn't do anything differently than I had done? What if I'd actually wanted to fuck every one of those men? What if heroin taught me something? What if yes was the right answer instead of no? What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?”Ģ. In honor of her newest book Brave Enough - a compilation of Strayed's best quotes, out today - here are our favorite tiny beautiful things:ġ.“What if I forgave myself? I thought. She also hosts the Dear Sugar Radio podcast with writer Steve Almond on public radio. In between all of this success, she’s maintained her steady flow of honest, raw, and powerful essays, writing for Tin House, The Sun, the Best American Essays series, among so much more. Strayed’s first novel, Torch, was released in 2006. The book was released in 2012, the same year as her best-selling memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. Tiny Beautiful Things is an otherworldly compilation of Strayed’s advice columns, written anonymously for the ever-compelling online lit-mag The Rumpus.
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