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"And so, despite the complex web of paths, waterfalls, cliffs, as a hiker wanders downhill, drainages merge, faint, abstract paths coalesce, thicken, until there is one path " the one, natural, trodden way."
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"If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination."
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"Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble!"
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Personal Development
"The life of people who do not know their destiny becomes an infinite chain of activities that in fact do not actually mean anything for their success."
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Personal Development
"Don't go in the opposite direction, locate your calling."
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"If you go with the flow, life will take you where it pleases, good or bad. If you take charge and fight, you can go anywhere that you please."
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"You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future."
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"The knowledge of "Where am I going?" sometimes depends on the faithfulness in little things."
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"A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone."
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"Whatever I 'align'' myself with are the very things that will create a 'line' into my future."
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"We must be focused on the goal that God has revealed to us."
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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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