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In every life story, including our own, decisions are made in haste that determine the course of eternity.
— Liz Curtis Higgs
When we all pass from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have is his own story to tell.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.
— Diane Setterfield
A wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it happen. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story.
— Suzanne Selfors
Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.
— C.S. Lewis
I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story.
— Haile Gerima
One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.
— Jessica Lange
First thing you learn wandering the long roads, kid. Everyone thinks they're the hero of their own story.Pg328 — Sebastien De Castell
I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
— Ed Greenwood
This is the story of how I "came down with cat," even though I had decided I would never, ever, own any pet.
— Nils Uddenberg
That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.
— Chuck Palahniuk
You either walk into your story and own your truth, or you live outside of your story, hustling for your worthiness.
— Brene Brown
Don't be sorry, Callie,' he says with a heavy-hearted sigh. 'You have your own sad story.
— Jessica Sorensen
I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth.
— Keri Russell
Our fatigue limited our desire to talk. Besides, each person's story did nothing except bring you closer to your own pain.
— Edwidge Danticat
The infant was standing on a spot in someone else's story, during a moment of her own.
— Lemony Snicket
You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. ~
— Irene C. Kassorla
This is the time to remember that I'm the protagonist in my own story, facing every challenge with grace and wit.
— Maya Van Wagenen
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.
— Margaret Atwood
It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.
— Richelle Mead
If we own the story then we can write the ending.
— Brene Brown
Be the hero of your own story.
— Joe Rogan
He must tell his own story.''But he will tell only half of it.'
'A quarter would be enough. — Jane Austen
A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.
— Katherine Paterson
For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.
— Brad Pitt
Be the hero of your own life story.
— Gerard Butler
To be powerful, a kiss should make a journey, be its own storybegin with hesitation, move to realization, then melt into bliss. — Shannon Hale
Ico took the girls hand in his own, the gesture feeling intensely familiar, as the sun shone brightly over the end of their long story.
— Miyuki Miyabe
A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.
— Margaret Wise Brown
If you want success, then be your own success story.
— Steven Cuoco
No- one is ever told any story but their own.
— Reza Aslan
No one is ever the villain of their own story.
— Cassandra Clare
When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.
— Stephen King
Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.
— Kristin Cashore
Every man is a hero of his own story.
— Brandon Sanderson
Odors have their own story to tell and the secret is to block them out after they're no longer relevant.
— Patricia Cornwell
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
— Charlotte Eriksson
You must give your own story to the world.
— Carter G. Woodson
You are alive, and you don't need to justify your existence. You can be the biggest mystery in your own story.
— Miguel Ruiz
Own your own story and then disown it. See how that feels.
— Art Hochberg
My own life is a fairy tale story - one that has already been written by the hands of God.
— Tessa Emily Hall
A familiar story, Marya instructs herself - a woman yearning to be completed in a man, by way of a man. As if she hadn't a soul of her own.
— Joyce Carol Oates
My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
— Anita Desai
Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.
— Eve Ensler
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
— Naguib Mahfouz
I believe there is a hero in each of us. The best books are the ones that remind us of who we already are and empower us to embrace our own story.
— Marilynn Halas
The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.
— Duane Michals
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
— Donald Kagan
Africa's story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.
— Paul Kagame
For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.
— Rachael Taylor
Be the hero of your own story. You are born to turn you mess into a message and the test into a testimony.
— Farshad Asl
Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
— George R R Martin
Be human. Be a dreamer. Be your own personal success story. Then help others to dream again. Humanity depends on it.
— Julieanne O'Connor
It was just the human story again, flowing through me as it did through everyone else, and I'd mistaken it as my own.p 284 — Frank Huyler
When we, any of us who have been transformed by Christ, tell our own stories, we're telling the story of who God is.
— Shauna Niequist
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
— Gene Roddenberry
Author's Note: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy.
— Isaac Asimov
We need the whole song, all the verses and the choruses to serve us as our own story unfolds because- trust me- life is hard, but God is good.
— Gloria Gaither
You are your own journey.
— A.D. Posey
Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
— Louise Bourgeois
The fact that I get to write and direct my own personal story is an amazing thing.
— Nicole Holofcener
Miss Petitfour loved the little pictures, each in its own serrated frame and each seeming to tell it's own little story.
— Anne Michaels
We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.
— Annette Bening
Let me enjoy my fan-wanking. Your what?
Let me arrange the story to meet my own personal needs. — Amanda Stevens
Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.
— Alister E. McGrath
Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.
— Darren Aronofsky
I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.
— Regina Spektor
Hannakins: I know you guys are living out your own private Romeo and Juliet love story, but remember: Both of them die in Act V. -A
— Sara Shepard
Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. Then make up your own story.
— Stephen Sondheim
Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.
— Kenneth R. Miller
Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.
— Lev Grossman
Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child
— Miguel Syjuco
You're the hero of your own story.
— Dan Baker
Improvise. Write your own damn story.
— Eric Lange
For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)
— Sheldon B. Kopp
