#sixtymeterstoanywhere

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..finally identified by something I do instead of something I don't do.

Brendan Leonard, Sixty Meters to Anywhere

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It wasn't like I expected to get a message from someone at the top or have an epiphany about the course of my life - but maybe the answer was in the process.

Brendan Leonard, Sixty Meters to Anywhere

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Maybe I should have seen it, an obvious sign of something bigger, that I was falling in love with one vision of life and Amy was falling in love with another one.

Brendan Leonard, Sixty Meters to Anywhere

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Is it more foolish to risk your life or risk wasting your life?

Brendan Leonard, Sixty Meters to Anywhere

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That is the end of the fun phase of all addictions: maintenance.

Brendan Leonard, Sixty Meters to Anywhere

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I never got the point of doing anything halfway.... So even if I was in the treatment program only because it was one of the terms of my probation, I was going to finish. It was tough, but not tougher than me. This, I later found, was the same mantra that got me to the top of mountains when I felt too exhausted to take another step.

Brendan Leonard, Sixty Meters to Anywhere