Ashley

“I’d made a plan: I would follow this road wherever it led me. I’d ignore all the others that crossed its path, no matter how intriguing or promising they looked.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“This was once Mazama, I kept reminding myself. This was once a mountain that stood nearly 12,000 feet tall and then had its heart removed. This was once a wasteland of lava and pumice and ash. This was once an empty bowl that took hundreds of years to fill. But hard as I tried, I couldn’t see them in my mind’s eye. Not the mountain or the wasteland or the empty bowl. They simply were not there anymore. 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

“them. I looked at the place I’d come from and the place I was going, the two equidistant from me. I was too far from either, so I forced my way forward.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail