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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

Now this is chicken soup, reflecting on the core of humanity, our souls, hearts, minds, and the simplicity, beauty, ugliness, preciousness, unexplainable-ness of life. Hitting heart chords in ways only the most honest, well-crafted words of the heart can say and touch a soul from another soul.

In other words, gutted. “Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here.”

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Noteworthy excerpts:

"People who decided simply to live their truth, even when doing so wasn’t simple. Each and every one of them had the courage to say, This is who I am even if you’ll crucify me for it. Just like Jesus did."

"And if there’s one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it’s that you can’t fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It’s a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees…Will you do it later or will you do it now?"

"There is no why. You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding."

"I’ll never know, and neither will you of 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."

"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...my grief taught me things. It showed me shades and hues I couldn't have otherwise seen. It required me to suffer. It compelled me to reach."

"It’s an invitation to do the real work. The kind that doesn’t pay a dime, but leaves you with a sturdy shelter by the end…It’s your own sweet self with whom you must rendezvous."

"Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith."

“It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.”

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