Nobody's going to do your life for you. - Cheryl Strayed

To know that seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water was enough. That it was everything. It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me.

How wild it was, to let it be.

The good things aren’t a movie. There isn’t enough to make a reel. The good things are a poem, barely longer than a haiku.

when we identify with what another has said or written, we use those words as an articulation of our own inner voices, not only as a celebration of theirs.