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"Like flowers blooming through cement,we, too, can grow beyond our cracks."
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"Self-confident people Know that obstacles are only temporary setbacks."
"Do you ever feel like you have been stopped dead in your tracks? That you have fallen and can't get up? Or like you are stuck in a rut or wading in muck? Paralysis, inertia, and being stuck, can be disempowering and disabling. What is it going to take for you to restart your engines and get moving again?"
"A seed does not die because you buried it, neither does a warrior."
"In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified."
"Do not give up. Be strong!"
"A star does not cease to be a star because it is surrounded by darkness."
"When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed."
"Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap."
"Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated."
"A victor knows that problems exist but he does not isolate himself from them."
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"We often mistake letting go for giving up. Knowing the difference betweenthe two can make all the difference in the end."
"Embrace those parts of yourself that you've skillfully avoided until now. That's your true adventure."
"Until that rainy Sunday at the movies 31 years ago, for me, companionship had been a mandate for life's good times. After Orca, it became a choice. My trip to the theater helped me to distinguish between loneliness (experienced by default), and solitude (choosing when and how to enjoy my own company), as I began a journey of engaging the world on my own terms. Over the years, that journey deepened as I traveled life's roads with increasing independence and confidence, whether I was attending graduate school at night while working during the day, buying my first house or changing careers."
"The cruise was the conduit for what would become my third book. While I was traveling and writing for ctnow.com, women across the United States and from the Caribbean emailed not to ask about my geographic journey but my existential one. "How do you find the courage to travel on your own? they wondered. "How do you keep from getting lonely? Don't you feel self-conscious eating out alone? After the first 30 emails like these I thought, There's a book here. It would be eight years before I published Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road. But the inspiration for publication came during the cruise."
"If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life's blessings."
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