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"I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love."
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"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."
"When you are dead you are independent, when you are alive your always dependent. It really doesn't matter are you there or there there is somebody above you, always!"
"Every nation, every woman and every man must work out their own salvation."
"When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself."
"The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone."
"Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!"
"She wasn't kind of lady that depended on a man and I think that's what made her so irrestible to them, any man she had loved she wanted ~ and the men that loved her back couldn't handle not being needed, so she showed them the door and grew her own wings as they walked out. Love to her isn't a maybe thing, nor is it attachment and any man whom thinks he will ever own her would be best not to try at all."
"Don't be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side."
"Believe in yourself. Carve your own path. Build your own dreams. Be your own hero."
"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."
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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."
"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."
"I wrote through darkness, vividly seeing: my passivity was not a crime; my desire to trust was not a flaw."
"Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament."
"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."
"The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard."
"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."
"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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