They did not realize what a supreme effort of courage it required to make this young girl go out alone into the wide world, and face its vastness and its strangeness.

Constance Fenimore Woolson
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This quote is a great reminder to everyone. To keep going and not quit, we need to know that the world is as big as it seems and it is as strange as we think it is.

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