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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Your greatest achievement will always be your life’s story. – Michael Margolis

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If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure. ― Philip Pullman

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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. ― Emily Dickinson

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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 telling you. I know all about darkness. That's why I am so hell-bent, every damn day, on looking for the light. ― Katherine Center

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But how could you live and have no story to tell? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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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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I love our story. Sure it's messy, but it's the story that got us here. — How I Met Your Mother

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