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When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. ROBERT PINSKY, "Samurai Song" Never never never give up. WINSTON CHURCHILL
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Who would I be if I didn't? Who would I be if I did?
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But thinking about it didn't do a thing. Thinking about it was a long dive into a bucket of shit that didn't have a bottom.
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Within the chaos of our shame and disappointment and rage there is meaning, and within that meaning is the possibility of rescue.
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Our minds are small, but our hearts are big.
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I saw no one, but, strange as it was, I missed no one. I
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But no one laughed. No one would. The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding.
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You can learn along the way.
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Our parents are the primal source. We make our own lives, but our origin stories are theirs. They go back with us to the beginning of time.
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This is how you get unstuck. You reach.
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When you're speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.
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They realized that, in fact, the lie wasn't safe. That it threatened their existence more profoundly than the truth did.
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I chose Van Gogh.
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He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.
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In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.
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She was a real human being laying herself bare, fearlessly, that we might come to understand the nature of our own predicaments.
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You've made it so long without your sweet boy and now you can't take it anymore. But you can. You must.
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We should surround ourselves with people who feel like abundance.
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What is hiking but walking, after all ?
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There's always a sunrise and always a sunset and it's up to you to choose to be there for it,' said my mother. 'Put yourself in the way of beauty.
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I didn't want to hurt for him anymore, to wonder whether in leaving him I'd made a mistake, to torment myself with all the ways I'd wronged him.
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I grew up and left home for college in the Twin Cities at a school called St. Thomas,
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Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!
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Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here.
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Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could.
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We don't reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. We start at the bottom and climb up. Blood is involved.
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Until, that is, a tree stopped me in my path.
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Run toward the darkness, sweet peas, and shine.
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An REI worker had encouraged me to buy a box of Spenco 2nd Skin - gel patches meant to treat burns that also happened to be great for blisters.
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Write like a motherfucker.
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This is not "how your story ends". It's simply where it takes a turn you didn't expect.
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Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid.
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He had no words for it, what made him, what pained him, what rocked him and fucked him.
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There was only the stillness and silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland and an empty bowl turned into after the healing began.
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I was trying to find a new home in the world.
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Ask yourself: What is the best I can do? And then do that.
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Will you do it later or will you do it now?
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There are stories you'll learn if you're strong enough to travel there. One of them might cure you.
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A caldera, it's called - a sort of mountain in reverse. A mountain that's had its very heart removed.
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The fuck is your life. Answer it.
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The whole deal about loving truly and for real and with all you've got has everything to do with letting those we love see what made us.
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all right is almost always where we eventually land, even if we fuck up entirely along the way.
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Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.
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What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What
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He felt like a brother of mine, but not at all like my actual brother. He seemed like someone I'd always know even if I never saw him again.
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Not regretting it later is the reason I've done at least three-quarters of the best things in my life.
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Jump high and hard with intention and heart.
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We often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be selfish assholes first.
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I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.
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I'm going to be mad at you for the rest of my life.
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I hated him and I loved him. With him I felt trapped, branded, held, and beloved. Like a daughter.
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He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.
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A beloved daughter who now spent holidays alone.
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Be the captain. You are the captain. Take the ball and run.
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Accept that someday what pains you now will surely pain you less.
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So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me.
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Fear of being alone is not a good reason to stay
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Lady pranced and scraped her front hooves on the ice and then lowered her head and looked at us. I inhaled sharply and Leif fired the gun.
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Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding
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But the thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.
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I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.
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This is not the moment to wilt into the underbrush of your insecurities. You've earned the right to grow.
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We yogied this from day hikers for you.
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I'd set out to hike the trail so that I could reflect upon my life, to think about everything that had broken me and make myself whole again.
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I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild.
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No one can write like Cheryl Strayed.
— Ann Hood
IMAGINE WHIRLED PEAS
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You can't squeeze blood from a turnip.
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The thing that would make me believe that hiking the Pacific Crest Trail was my way back to the person I used to be.
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I was working too hard to be afraid.
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It was April in Minneapolis and snowing, the flakes coming down in thick swirls enchanting the city
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I mean: be your best, most gigantic self.
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There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the surface of me like a bruise.
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waiting for a friend to get off
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The good things aren't a movie. There isn't enough to make a reel. The good things are a poem, barely longer than a haiku. There
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Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.
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quitting. But now, only ten days out, I was done. I wanted
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Being with him felt unbearable, but being with anyone else did too.
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it with their fingers out of my hands,
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When I have something to say that's particularly hard to say, I often write it down first.
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Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid.
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I didn't know where I was going until I got there. It
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I put her burnt bones into my mouth and swallowed them whole.
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How strange and glorious it was to be anchored to nothing, to be free, in some particular way, for the first time in my life.
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You don't need a reason to leave.
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Humans are beautifully imperfect and complex. We're horny, ass-saving, ego-driven drug fiends, among other, more noble things.
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Bagby Hot Springs.
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Every time I set foot on that trail, I feel grateful for the PCTA for doing the work it does to protect and preserve it
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I didn't look like a woman who might need twelve condoms.
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