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All of us, as we mature and grow up - if we're doing life right - we evolve.

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Cheryl Strayed
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 17
Blogger
Essayist
Feminist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Spangler
Pennsylvania
Mature
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Grow
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Life

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In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.
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Jump high and hard with intention and heart.
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You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.
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In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.
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When you meet a man in the doorway of a Mexican restaurant who later kisses you while explaining that this kiss doesn’t “mean anything” because, much as he likes you, he is not interested in having a relationship with you or anyone right now, just laugh and kiss him back. Your daughter will have his sense of humor. Your son will have his eyes.
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It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.
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Wounded?” was all I could manage. “Yes,” said Pat. “And you’re wounded in the same place. That’s what fathers do if they don’t heal their wounds. They wound their children in the same place.
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I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.
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And every last one of us can do better than give up.
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The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.
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Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.
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