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Faye
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Adventure is about impressing yourself, self-esteem, and having confidence in your own abilities. It doesn’t come from other people acknowledging your success – it comes from you experiencing difficult shit and living through it. You don’t
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“If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be translated from one language to another, must be learned.”
― Ru
― Ru
“...invite a person to a log cabin in the woods for a weekend. The true personality emerges every time.”
― Woodswoman I: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness
― Woodswoman I: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness

“We don't see people as they are. We see people as we are.”
― Little Birds
― Little Birds

“Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.
Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.”
― Reflections
Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.”
― Reflections

“I have found that some of the simplest things have given me the most pleasure. They didn't cost me a lot of money either. They just worked on my senses. Did you ever pick very large blueberries after a summer rain Walk through a grove of cottonwoods, open like a park, and see the blue sky beyond the shimmering gold of the leaves? Pull on dry woolen socks after you've peeled off the wet ones? Come in out of the subzero and shiver yourself warm in front of a wood fire? The world is full of such things.”
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