Ashley

“Perhaps by now I’d come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid.”
― 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

“Each day I would try to find out what His will was and try to follow that, rather than trying to get Him to always agree that the things I thought up for myself were the things best for me.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous

“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