You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human... And although you don't have complete control over the narrative - no author does, I can tell you - you could nevertheless create it.

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And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

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Books may well be the only true magic.

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If you're going through hell, keep going. — Winston Churchill

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Nothing will work unless you do.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. — Steve Jobs

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Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try. — Joyce Meyer

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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

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When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it... You've got to replace it with a positive thought. — Joel Osteen

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