Midori

“We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“It is always hard to see the purpose in wilderness wanderings until after they are over.
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― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce