2014
A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.
115 min
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
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'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.