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In the mid–path of my life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood,' writes Dante, in The Divine Comedy, beginning a quest that will lead to transformation and redemption. A journey through the dark of the woods is a motif common to fairy tales: young heroes set off through the perilous forest in order to reach their destiny, or they find themselves abandoned there, cast off and left for dead. The road is long and treacherous, prowled by wolves, ghosts, and wizards — but helpers also appear along the way, good fairies and animal guides, often cloaked in unlikely disguises. The hero's task is to tell friend from foe, and to keep walking steadily onward. ↗

— Terri Windling

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There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A. ↗

— Will Smith

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When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished. ↗

— Mitch Albom

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We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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Sowing seeds of kindness always reaps a crop of heavenly blessings. ↗

— Rebecca Barlow Jordan

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THOSE WHO SAID IT CAN'T BE DONE...SHOULDN'T GET IN MY WAY WHILE I'M DOING IT! ↗

— Rosetta D. Hoessli

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One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame. ↗

— Libba Bray

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The first time is always the hardest ↗

— Sarwat Chadda

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To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown. ↗

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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