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“The rhythm of solitude, once so intimidating, began to feel comfortable. Aloneness, I was learning, does not have to equal loneliness.”
― John Grogan, Bad Dogs Have More Fun: Selected Writings on Family, Animals, and Life from The Philadelphia Inquirer

tags: aloneness, comfortable, learning, loneliness, solitude

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“12. There will come a day, much quicker than your parents would wish, when you will no longer be comfortable living at home. You will want to move out and establish a home of your own. After that time, your mother and father will be more like your friends than your parents. And someday, if they live long enough, you will be more like a parent to them than a son or daughter.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“to explore the inner country of his own soul.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

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“Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

tags: christopher-mccandless, into-the-wild, supertramp, travel, travel-writer

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“My journal has become a paper mirror, a topographic map to my mind. It is where I go to sort out confusion and decipher the invisible.”
― Dawna Markova, I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion

tags: confusion, diary, journal, mind, mirror

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