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- I had to change. I had to change was the thought that drove me in those months of planning. Not into a different person, but…
- I'd walk and think about my entire life. I'd find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous.
- I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go.
- It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point…
- The father’s job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse to ride into…
- I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important…
- Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the…
- I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. I didn't embrace the word as my new name because it defined negative aspects of my circumstances…
- I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we…
- Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or…
- Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed to get anything…
- So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love'…
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