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The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.

Cheryl Strayed

I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.

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You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.

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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 back to the person I used to be—strong and responsible, clear-eyed and driven, ethical and good. And the PCT would make me that way. There, I'd walk and think about my entire life. I'd find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous.

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We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know and actualize who we could be. The only difference is the distance of the leap.

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The people who don't give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity.

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