You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. -Unknown (or more than one)

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"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." Mahatma Gandhi

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Don't cross an ocean for someone who won't step over a puddle for you!

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Adults follow paths.

Children explore.

Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences.

I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman

I went away in my head, into a book.

That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman