{"quotes":[{"text":"You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don't have to justif your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts.You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you've got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.","author":"Cheryl Strayed","tags":["advice","careers","cheryl-strayed","dear-sugar","the-future","tiny-beautiful-things"],"id":47996,"author_id":"Cheryl+Strayed"},{"text":"... In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole. Also, because it's harder to be magnanimous when you're in your twenties, I think, and so that's why I'd like to remind you of it. You're generally less humble in that decade than you'll ever be and this lack of humility is oddly mixed with insecurity and uncertainty and fear. You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery.","author":"Cheryl Strayed","tags":["20-somethings","advice","cheryl-strayed","dear-sugar","growth","tiny-beautiful-things"],"id":99982,"author_id":"Cheryl+Strayed"},{"text":"To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.","author":"Cheryl Strayed","tags":["advice","cheryl-strayed","children","dear-sugar","tiny-beautiful-things"],"id":117584,"author_id":"Cheryl+Strayed"},{"text":"I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English and/or creative writing degree you'll say: ... Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.","author":"Cheryl Strayed","tags":["advice","careers","cheryl-strayed","dear-sugar","jobs","tiny-beautiful-things"],"id":148530,"author_id":"Cheryl+Strayed"},{"text":"As the High Priestess looked down upon the child, she was struck by her holy perfection. She was a tiny person in miniature, and her beautiful eyes, little hands, and long eyelashes were sublime.","author":"Alan Kinross","tags":["babies","baby","beautiful-eyes","beauty","child","eyelashes","hands","love","mothers-and-daughters","mothers-love","perfection","tiny-beautiful-things"],"id":159777,"author_id":"Alan+Kinross"},{"text":"Happiness lies even in little tiny butterflies. You just have to cpen up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["beauty","believing","butterflie","contemplation","enduring","enlightenment","everlasting","happiness","happiness","lenghtwise","meditation","nature","open-minded-life","open-mindedness","open-up-your-eyes","openness","seeing-the-world","seeing-things-in-a-different-way","state-of-mind","tiny-beautiful-things","zen","zen-and-the-art-of-happiness"],"id":170870,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Happiness lies even in tiny little butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["beauty","believing","butterflie","contemplation","enduring","enlightenment","everlasting","happiness","happiness","lenghtwise","meditation","nature","open-minded-life","open-mindedness","open-up-your-eyes","openness","seeing-the-world","seeing-things-in-a-different-way","state-of-mind","tiny-beautiful-things","zen","zen-and-the-art-of-happiness"],"id":189910,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"What if you allowed your God to exist in he 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? What if you trusted in the human scale? What if you listened harder to the story of the man on the cross who found a way to endure his suffering more than to the one about the impossible magic of the Messiah? Would you see the miracle in that?","author":"Cheryl Strayed","tags":["advice","cheryl-strayed","faith","hard-stuff","tiny-beautiful-things"],"id":198727,"author_id":"Cheryl+Strayed"},{"text":"The kindest and most meaningful thing anyone ever said to me is: Your mother would be proud of you. ... The strange and painful truth is that I'm a better person because I lost my mom young. When you say you excperienced my writing as sacred, what you are touching is the divine place within me that is my mother. Sugar is the temple I build in my obliterated place. I'd give it all back in a snap, but the fact is, my grief taught me things. ... It required me to suffer. It compelled me to reach.","author":"Cheryl Strayed","tags":["advice","cheryl-strayed","dear-sugar","death","grief","loss","tiny-beautiful-things"],"id":200268,"author_id":"Cheryl+Strayed"},{"text":"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.","author":"Cheryl Strayed","tags":["advice","anger","cheryl-strayed","dear-sugar","forgiveness","loss","tiny-beautiful-things"],"id":294132,"author_id":"Cheryl+Strayed"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}