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When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines on you..

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Alex here. (...) Ron, I really enjoy all the help you have given me and the times we spent together. I hope that you will not be too depressed by our ...more

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The eight-man expedition was pinned down in a ferocious blizzard high on K2, waiting to make an assault on the summit, when a team member named Art Gi...more

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It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, i...more

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From elementary school through high school, my siblings and I were hectored to excel in every class, to win medals in science fairs, to be chosen prin...more

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I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do...more

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I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do...more

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The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.

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Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner co...more

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It is easy when you are young to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough it i...more

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But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.

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Because I was alone, however, even the mundane seemed charged with meaning. The ice looked colder and more mysterious, the sky a cleaner shade of blue...more

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I don’t want to know what time it is. I don’t want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.