We don’t reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. We start at the bottom and climb up. Blood is involved. - Cheryl Strayed

Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life.

I looked up at the blue sky, feeling, in fact, a burst of energy, but mostly feeling my mother’s presence, remembering why it was that I’d thought I could hike this trail.

Forgiveness bellows from the bottom of the canoe. There are doubts, dangers, unfathomable travesties. There are stories you’ll learn if you’re strong enough to travel there. One of them might cure you.