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Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.”

— Neil Gaiman

The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.

Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.

— Kobe Bryant

Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.

— Paulo Coelho

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.”

— Terry Pratchett

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

— Chinua Achebe

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don’t have to live anybody else’s story.

— Stephen Curry

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

— Muriel Rukeyser

Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language – it’s from the Latin word cor, meaning heart – and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.”

— Brené Brown

There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.”

— Terry Pratchett