Elise Standridge’s Reviews > First You Have to Row a Little Boat: Reflections on Life & Living > Status Update

We may make a decision to go our own way, which is the only true way, but if we're caught without wind in our sails we'll find ourselves captive, doing the bidding of those we detest. And the tragedy is this: We may never give the gift which is ourselves to those we love or find out who we truly are.

- Page 60

"I suspect there are destinations that call to us from a secret place within ourselves and we head for them instinctively" (page 5)