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"I realized that no, no one would actually come to save or even stop me, I had absolutely no choice. The scale tipped: the moment not doing it became more difficult and unbearable than just doing it."
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"If you don't' know what you want, others will give you what they want."
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"Some activities may look attractive, but you don't have any business dating them, else they break you up. It may be good, but not right. Flee from good things and do right things!"
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Personal Development
"Of all the thoughts that hover in your mind, the one you deliberately choose and act upon - changes your LIFE!"
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Personal Development
"If you hate it... you close it!If you can't do it... you don't do it...!...Don't try from shit to make gold!"
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Personal Development
"In your daily life, you make dozens of chooses between an alternative with higher overall value and a more tempting but ultimately inferior option."
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Personal Development
"Make decisions even with incomplete info. You'll never have all the info you need. What matters is what you do with the info you have."
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Personal Development
"A wrong choice thwarts God's original intention."
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Personal Development
"Choices, Choices, Choices!Listen to your instincts; you will make the best-choices."
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"Life is a choice. Choose to live and not merely survive."
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"To Be Part Of The Restoration Is A Decision."
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"If I could mark clearly, convincingly and consistently what was good for me and also what was bad-if I could say yes and also no, as if it were the law-it would become my law."
Self-Control
"From that unremarkable gap in dense northern forest, I could finally see clearly that if I hadn't walked away from school, through devastating beauty alone on the Pacific Crest Trail, met rattlesnakes and bears, fording frigid and remote rivers as deep as I am tall-feeling terror and the gratitude that followed the realization that I'd survived rape-I'd have remained lost, maybe for my whole life. The trail had shown me how to change.This is the story of how my recklessness became my salvation.I wrote it."
Healing
"I wrote through darkness, vividly seeing: my passivity was not a crime; my desire to trust was not a flaw."
Healing
"The way to self-love and admiration is to behave like someone whom you love and admire."
Self
"Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament."
Rest
"But the truth was stranger than an aimless road, it always was."
Truth
"And the idea of light unexplainably produced out of nothing was haunting, it shook me. A flat drab mountain could produce its own light, no one in this whole world knows why, and if that was possible then of course there must be other things that seemed impossible that weren't, and so anything-great and terrible-felt possible to me now."
Possibility
"The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard."
Courage
"I felt like I belonged to an ancient tradition of all young people given this same task of finding their own ways through to the futures they wanted for themselves."
Tradition
"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."
Nature
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