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Aspen Matis

"Chinese proverb says that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. This journey had begun with the coercion of my body, with my own wild hope."

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"Chinese proverb says that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. This journey had begun with the coercion of my body, with my own wild hope."

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Amber Hurdle

"We all have our own road to walk. Whether rocky, curving, straight or smooth, what good is a lonely road? It's when we run and intersect with other roads that defines our road. When road meets road do we get direction, and choices to cross into another life."

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Amber Hurdle

"Everyone wanted to get to someplace better, wherever that was."

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Amber Hurdle

"This is my story. I don't know where I'm going, but I know I'm going somewhere beautiful, and I know I'm on my way... It's been a beautiful adventure. It always will be."

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"When you find the best path ahead of you, leave all other paths behind you!"

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"Between here and there is a journey illuminated by the rising and setting of a radiant sun. Don't miss its splendor in your all-fired hurry to cross the finish line."

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"God has hewn out a hidden path more glorious, tantalizing and adventuresome than the path trod by most, and it is a path seen only through the eyes of our wounds, felt solely through the heart of our losses, and singularly traversed by those with a limp in their step."

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Amber Hurdle

"The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you don't know where you are going, you can arrive at any destination."

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Amber Hurdle

"Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. To the place where no living thing would go. Not unless it felt that the end had come."

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Amber Hurdle

"When you feel least interested in following the Way which you have entered, this may be the time when it is most appropriate for you."

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"I was promising myself strength.I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it."
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"After twelve years of trying, I just decided to stop missing."
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"My path, beyond doubt or denial. I just hadn't looked toward it. I wasn't lost. I'd always known the way. If I'd only allowed myself to look. I had never been lost, only scared."
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"All I could think as he was speaking was that, if he touched me at all, all the miles I'd walked, the pain I'd felt, the beauty I'd drunken like milk, like good wine making me happy, the four million steps I'd taken, would all add up to nothing. They'd be stolen. They'd vanish like the teeth children lose when they get hit. Only after the blood was washed away would I see that they were gone."
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"When I felt strongly I would say it strongly."
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"The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard."
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"I didn't know if I was brave or reckless."
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"I saw for the first time that I could stop giving people the power to make me feel disrespected. In my anger I began to see the absurdity of allowing this boy to shame me."
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"I sensed he was the one who might be able to see me clearly, the way I most wished to be seen."
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"The trees were friendly, they gave me rest and shadowed refuge. Slipping through them, I felt safe and competent. My whole body was occupied. I had little energy to think or worry."
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