Very inspiring quotes to live by in 2016
Struggling to set or stick to your goals for the year? Award winning American author and advice columnist Cheryl Strayed has a few words of wisdom to help you reach your New Year’s resolutions, whatever they may be.
Approaching the New Year
“It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.”
Finding beauty
“What if you allowed your God to exist in the simple words of compassion others offer you? What if the greatest beauty of the day is the shaft of sunlight through our window? What if the worst thing happened and you rose anyway?”
Despair
“You go on by doing the best you can. You go on by being generous. You go on by being true. You go on by offering comfort to others who can't go on. You go on by allowing the unbearable days to pass and allowing the pleasure in other days. You go on by finding a channel for your love and another for your rage.”
Relationships
“The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.”
Fear
“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves. And so I choose to tell myself a different story.”
Self-acceptance
“Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.”
Love
“Practice saying the word ‘love’ to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.”
Letting go of the past
“I’ll never know and neither will you the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.
Grief
“My grief taught me things. ... It required me to suffer. It compelled me to reach.”
Wisdom
“You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.”
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