It’s not by accident that people talk of a state of confusion as not being able to see the wood for the trees, or of being out of the woods when some crisis is surmopunted. It is a place of loss, confusion, terror and anger, a place where you can, like Dante, find yourself going down into Hell. But if it’s any comfort, the dark wood isn’t just that. It’s also a place of opportunity and adventure. It is the place in which fortunes can be reversed, hearts mended, hopes reborn.

~ Amanda Craig

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To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray.

~ Ilyas Kassam

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Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame.

~ Dante Alighieri

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...It is the one time Dante calls such explicit attention to the idea of contrapasso-a word for which we have no exact translation, no precise definition in English, because the word in itself is its definition... Well, my dear Longfellow, I would say countersuffering ... the notion that each sinner must be punished by continuing the damage of his own sin against him... just as these Schismatics are cut apart...

~ Matthew Pearl

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