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#1

“In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-love-quotes, inspiring, lost, love, lovers, searching-and-finding

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#2

“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 or life, but because even in my darkest days—those very days in which I was naming myself—I saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn't have known before.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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#3

“I never got to be in the driver’s seat of my own life,” she’d wept to me once, in the days after she learned she was going to die. “I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I’ve always been someone’s daughter or mother or wife. I’ve never just been me.” “Oh, Mom,” was all I could say as I stroked her hand. I was too young to say anything else.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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#4

“The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. It took me four years, seven months, and three days to do it. I didn't know where I was going until I got there.

It was a place called the Bridge of the Gods.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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#5

“Being with him felt unbearable, but being with anyone else did too.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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#6

“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.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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#7

“By the time I rose and started walking again, I didn’t begrudge my mother a thing. The truth was, in spite of all that, she’d been a spectacular mom. I knew it as I was growing up. I knew it in the days that she was dying. I knew it now. And I knew that was something. That it was a lot. I had plenty of friends who had moms who—no matter how long they lived—would never give them the all-encompassing love that my mother had given me. My mother considered that love her greatest achievement.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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#8

“In moments among my various agonies, I noticed the beauty that surrounded me, the wonder of things both small and large: the color of a desert flower that brushed against me on the trail or the grand sweep of the sky as the sun faded over the mountains.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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#9

“And you may not be able to see this yet, but perhaps there will come a time—it could be years from now—when you’ll need to get on your horse and ride into battle and you’re going to hesitate. You’re going to falter. To heal the wound your father made, you’re going to have to get on that horse and ride into battle like a warrior.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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#10

“I did not cry. I only breathed. Horribly. Intentionally. And then forgot to breathe.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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#11

“I looked up at the blue sky, feeling, in fact, a burst of energy, but mostly feeling my mother’s presence, remembering why it was that I’d thought I could hike this trail.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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#12

“The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: believe, healing, hope, inner-strength, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, invincibility, wild-roses

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#13

“I found an inner strength to fight for myself. It was clear that nobody else would.”
― Tehmina Durrani, My Feudal Lord

tags: alone, fight, inner-strength, motivation, strength

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#14

“I think that, generally, people of the world typify a "free and wild" person as someone who's uprooted, detached and uninhibited. But I don't believe in that kind of freedom. I think that's an infantile concept. Freedom means something when it has escaped something! Those people who escaped things— their inner cages, cages set by others around them— when those people are able to roam free and say, "This is who I am because this is who I choose to be", THAT is freedom. Freedom isn't being stupid; freedom is being so smart that you develop a strength strong enough to break free and become your own person. A better person than what your circumstances would like to define you as.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: a-real-concept-of-freedom, free-and-wild, inner-strength, strength, true-freedom, when-freedom-gets-its-meaning

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#15

“Every time the song looped, all I heard was the part about the lies - and how they weigh you down. Tonight, as I drive toward Detroit in my Jeep, I know what those words really mean. It's not just the lies they're referring to. It's life. You can't run to another town, another place, another state. Whatever it is you're running from - it goes with you. It stays with you until you find out how to confront it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

tags: life, past, running-away, running-away-from-problems

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#16

“But I knew better: No matter where you go, the past floods back. You can try like the dickens, but you can't escape fate.”
― Michael Lee West, American Pie

tags: running-away-from-problems, running-from-past

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#17

“You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing to come alive again. It's a place for disappearing, you'd said, a place for getting lost... and for getting found.
I'll take you there, you'd said.
And I could say that I agreed.”
― Lucy Christopher, Stolen

tags: better-life, finding-yourself, freedom, hope, living-life-to-the-fullest, running-away

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#18

“You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your feet too deeply if you stay around for too long. But then what if someone were to come along and pick up those pieces for you? Then you wouldn't have to run away from yourself anymore. You could stop running. If someone sees you as something worth staying with— maybe you'll stay with yourself, too.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: brokenness, finding-yourself, fixing-a-broken-girl, healing, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, running-away, self-worth, stay

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#19

“You can run,” Dorian said in a neutral tone that did nothing to lessen the intensity of his
expression, “but sooner or later, you run out of places to run to.”
― Nalini Singh, Play of Passion

tags: dorian, running-away

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#20

“I do know this. It's the things we run from that hurt us the most." –Brad Sturdevant”
― Norma Johnston

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#21

“My dear sister, you can’t escape God, and you can’t escape your skeletons in the closet. They will always be there until you take them out from behind those dusty old moth-eaten coats. Your exterior facade of ‘everything is alright’ only works for a little while, and then the cracks begin to show. You can only hide behind yourself for so long. You can’t keep running!”
― Corallie Buchanan, Watch Out! Godly Women on the Loose

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#22

“If ever I was running, it was towards you.”
― Jennifer Elisabeth

tags: anxiety, art, beach, born-ready, cape-cod, coming-of-age, constellations, depression, destiny, fate, friends, girls, growing, growing-up, healing, hope, inspiration, jennifer-elisabeth, learning, life, love, lovers, ocean, pray, prayer, red-thread, red-thread-of-destiny, red-thread-of-fate, running, running-away, self-acceptance, self-love, self-reflection, soul, soul-mates, stars, teenagers, teens, time, universe, wish

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#23

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
― Maya Angelou

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#24

“Maybe, Hazel decided, maybe they could both learn how. Not just making-up-stories-in-which-you're-happy happiness, but the real thing. She leaned across the bed and hugged him with all the strength in her limbs, hugged him until her bones ached. But no matter how hard she hugged him, she knew it would never be enough.
"I promise," she whispered. "I'll try.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

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#25

“The only way to end grief was to go through it.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

tags: grief

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#26

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
― Walter Mosley, Blue Light

tags: change, growth

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#27

“Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.”
― Arundhati Roy

tags: change

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#28

“All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you're green.”
― Tess Callahan

tags: change, life-experience

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#29

“She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

tags: change, self-improvement

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#30

“He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.”
― Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce

tags: cheating, divorce, husband, infidelity, marriage, seperation

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