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"I'd crossed a border-Speaking openly, exposing the weak girl I'd been, I was no longer her."
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"All changes are born within."
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"Anyone who accepts Jesus into his heart and believes Him always becomes great."
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"Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love."
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"A rose's beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed."
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"Small caterpillars still become big butterflies."
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"He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short. He look like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year."
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"Knowledge acted upon makes all the difference, produces the different results we have in life."
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"There's something beautiful about facing tragedy, you crack open a new, you find yourself in the parts of you; that can finally be explored freely with out judgement or guilt. Where to from here doesn't exist & your not sure when it will return, but there's something beautiful in facing tragedy, a new type of being within you is born and one whom is more fearless than ever before."
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"When you become the light, there will be no darkness."
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"You're destined for greatness, Life said. "But first, I'm going to make you cry"."
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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."
Strength
"When I felt strongly I would say it strongly."
Expression
"The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard."
Courage
"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."
Empowerment
"I sensed he was the one who might be able to see me clearly, the way I most wished to be seen."
Connection
"Death is not a pretty flower that had almost pricked me. It was not a small annoyance I could simply bypass and quickly disregard. It was really The End."
Death
"I made a conscious effort to name my needs and desires. To carefully listen to and accurately identify what I felt. Hunger, exhaustion, cold, lower-back ache, thirst. The ephemeral pangs: wistfulness and loneliness. Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament."
Self-Care
"I doubted I could survive in the woods without these very basic things to help me. It seemed like a tremendous leap of faith to forsake the tools I'd always been told I needed. And yet leaving college to walk was such a massive leap of faith already, and nothing I'd ever trusted and believed in seemed true any longer."
Faith
"In lovesickness we had found a common language."
Connection
"It took me almost two thousand miles in the woods to see I had to do some hard work that wasn't simply walking-that I needed to begin respecting my own body's boundaries. I had to draw clear lines. Ones that were sound in my mind and therefore impermeable, and would always, no matter where I walked, protect me. Moving forward, I wanted rules.First-when I felt unsafe I'd leave, immediately. The first time, not the tenth time. Not after a hundred red flags smacked in wind violently, clear as trail signs pointing the way to SNAKES. Not after I'd been bitten-the violation. If I wasn't interested, I would reject the man blatantly."
Boundaries
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