“I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.”

—  Cheryl Strayed , book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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