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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“My relationship with thru-hiking has typically been love in hindsight rather than love at first sight.”
― A Long Way From Nowhere: A Couple's Journey on the Continental Divide Trail
― A Long Way From Nowhere: A Couple's Journey on the Continental Divide Trail
“It matches the capacity of evil to inflict suffering with an even more enduring capacity to absorb evil, all the while persisting in love.”
― Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
― Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
― Strength to Love
― Strength to Love
“The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband’s testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.”
― Half the Sky
― Half the Sky
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