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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

He was a lawyer and he knew that it would be best to trust his journalist friend, but not to tell his own lawyer — Haidji

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story. — Billy Graham

If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment. — Steve Toltz

I'm from a middle class family. I didn't grow-up rich, but I didn't grow-up poor. Each guy has to stick to his own story. — SonReal

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

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. — Gloria Swanson

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

A synopsis of every story we do: someone gets over their own stupid ass. — Kieron Gillen

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

Story is a fragile and ephemeral thing on its own, a thing that is easily effaced or disappeared or destroyed, and it is worth preserving. — Doug Dorst

A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning. — Katherine Paterson

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story. — Maxine Kumin

Without a story of your own to live, you haven't got a life of your own. — Alan Gettis

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 story
begin 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

We had just heard that story recounted so many times over the years that it was easy to take the details and fold them into our own sparse memories. — Sarah Dessen

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

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience. — Chinua Achebe

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

Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story. — Lisa Mangum

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

Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story. — Michael Gove

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

That Bob Crane is not here to tell his own life story is our ultimate loss. — Carol M. Ford

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

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you're in the middle of it — Nick Cave

Be human. Be a dreamer. Be your own personal success story. Then help others to dream again. Humanity depends on it. — Julieanne O'Connor

She told a story of being so fixated on the beautiful features of a playmate that she collided with a tree and skinned her own face. — Jean Nathan

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

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story. — Maggie Shayne

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

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object. — Tori Amos

Those who tell their own story you know must be listened to with caution. — Jane Austen

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name. — Harry Mathews

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's. — Chris Brogan

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories. — Sarah Kay

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief. — Lev Grossman

All of us to one degree or another disconnect from God's story because we are fundamentally committed to being the author of our own stories. — Bill Delvaux

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

It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life you have to rescue yourself. — Shannon L. Alder

It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth. — Frank Delaney