Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of being. Your life will be a hundred times better for it. - Cheryl Strayed

You did things you didn't hope to do. You have not always been your best self. This means that you're like the rest of us.

Every last one of us can do better than give up.

Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. That perhaps being amidst the undesecrated beauty of the wilderness meant I too could be undesecrated, regardless of what I’d lost or what had been taken from me, regardless of the regrettable things I’d done to others or myself or the regrettable things that had been done to me. Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.