If you own this story you get to write the ending. — Brené Brown

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I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life. You haunted me to the point that I began to believe Hank had gone back on his oath and killed you. I couldn't escape you and I didn't want to. You tortured me, but it was better than losing you. ― Becca Fitzpatrick

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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act

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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So, write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can. – Neil Gaiman

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But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture. ― Raymond Carver

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I’m out there to clean the plate. Once they’ve read what I’ve written on a subject, I want them to think, ‘That’s it!’ I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again. - Richard Ben Cramer

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Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. ― Douglas Pagels

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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. ― Soren Kierkegaard

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A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.― Dave Ramsey

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Story—sacred and profane—is perhaps the main cohering force in human life. - Jonathan Gottschall

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