The story you tell yourself defines the life you live and the actions you take. It’s important to tell yourself a positive story.

If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers. Let our grandchildren delight to find

Activate the blessings of the Lord upon your life by praying to the Lord about your day. Good morning!

It hurts, because we wanted a different outcome, but then we make it hurt even worse by creating a narrative around what happened.

So, instead of creating that debilitating narrative, I think we’re better served realizing that now, we have an opportunity to pivot – to take our life in a different direction.

You’ve got a new story to write. And it looks nothing like your past.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

Without literature, life is hell.

Brian: What was the deal back there?
Dom: It’s a long story.
Brian: We have a twenty mile hike. Humor me.
Dom: A business deal that went sour. Plus I made the mistake of sleeping with his sister.

At the end of the day, your life is just a story. If you don’t like the direction it’s going, change it. Rewrite it. When you rewrite a sentence, you erase it and start over until you get it right. Yes, it’s a little more complicated with a life, but the principle is the same. And remember, don’t let anyone ever tell you that your revisions are not the truth.

Ayame Sohma: This concludes my wonderful story. Kyo Sohma: You mean stupid!

Shigure Sohma: Lemme guess; you lost your temper and yelled at her again, right? You know, you shouldn’t do that if you’re just going to

We can either tell her the truth or make up a story she won’t believe anyway.

If he heard that little story, I wonder how he’d feel.

I know that I’m going to die and that you’re going to die. I can’t do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure.

Don’t worry. Just when you think your life is over, a new storyline falls from the sky and lands right in your lap.

When you end a chapter in your life, a new chapter unfolds. Your story does not end until the book is complete, so just don’t worry about starting over at all.

You are the poem I never knew how to write and this life is the story I have always wanted to tell.

If you wrote down every single thought you ever had, you would get an award for the shortest story ever.

The main thing I liked what I was doing, I liked work. I liked the stars and stories we were telling, and it was a joy to contribute to the literature work that was going to be coming out. But little did I think it would go this far.

Every love story is beautiful but ours is my favorite.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

If life was a book; every day would be a new page, every month would be a new chapter, and every year would be a new series.

I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting.

God can change your story so that throughout history, His Glory may be revealed.

This is how bad stories end. But it’s also how the best stories begin.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

I will start anew
I will make amends
and I will make quite certain
that the story ends
on a note of hope
on a strong amen
and I’ll thank the world
and remember when
I was able to begin again!

You’re the author of your life’s story. You can start a new chapter any time you choose.

It’s time to write a new story.

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

Every story has an end. But in life, every ending is just a new beginning.

Gabrielle: Uncle John, I’ve heard the stories. I know you’ve been through a lot. But my world is a lot different from yours.
Rambo: No, it’s not. It’s worse.
Gabrielle: No, it’s not. People don’t just act bad for no reason.
Rambo: There’s no reason for a man to throw his family away. He’s lucky he has one.
Gabrielle: Why are you getting so mad?
Rambo: Because you don’t know how bad it is. I know how black a man’s heart can be. There’s nothing good out there, Gabrielle.
Gabrielle: Well, maybe he’s changed.
Rambo: Men like that don’t change. It only gets worse.
Gabrielle: You changed.
Rambo: I haven’t changed. I’m just trying to keep a lid on it, every day.

January gives you that time to start fresh. A blank slate to write a better story. Make every day count.

This new month brings new beginnings. Don’t let this fresh page go to waste — start writing your story today.

Almost anything upsets or insults a movie audience, while people who read novels and short stories love to be upset and insulted.

And this is where the story and confusion began
‘Cause I was at nirvana but I had to pretend that I wasn’t.

God’s plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God’s glory. But, at present, the other side’s winning.

God really does have a plan for every child that He knits together, even when they look broken to the world outside, when their story is broken, when their hearts are broken, when their bodies are broken. God still knit this child together with a plan.

I felt like there was something I needed to do – speaking to kids and sharing my story with them and helping them understand racism has no place in the minds and hearts of children.

I like to share my story with children, and they are amazed by the story.

Now if there’s one thing truck drivers know how to do, it’s sitting around telling stories.

God is the very first piece of the Christian Story because the Story is all about Him. He is the central character, not us. The Story is not so much about God’s plan for our lives as it is about our lives for God’s plan.

Stories from the road.

Real people, real stories, real trucks.

Usually, when I’m rappin’, I’m creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

You’re no saint. You got a free cab, you got a free room, and someone who’ll listen to your boring stories. I mean, didn’t you notice on the plane when you started talking, eventually I started reading the vomit bag? Didn’t that give you some sort of clue, like, hey, maybe this guy’s not enjoying it? You know, everything is not an anecdote. You have to discriminate. You choose things that are funny or mildly amusing or interesting. You’re a miracle! Your stories have none of that. They’re not even amusing *accidentally*! “Honey, I’d like you to meet Del Griffith, he’s got some amusing anecodotes for you. Oh, and here’s a gun so you can blow your brains out. You’ll thank me for it.” I could tolerate any insurance seminar. For days, I could sit there and listen to them go on and on with a big smile on my face. They’d say, “How can you stand it?” I’d say, “‘Cause I’ve been with Del Griffith. I can take anything.” You know what they’d say? They’d say, “I know what you mean. The shower curtain ring guy. Whoa.” It’s like going on a date with a Chatty Cathy doll. I expect you have a little string on your chest, you know, that I pull out and have to snap back. Except I wouldn’t pull it out and snap it back, you would. Agh! Agh! Agh! Agh! And by the way, you know, when you’re telling these little stories? Here’s a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

Stop being just a chapter on someone else’s life, be the whole book, be full of other stories.

You are meant to be the main character, so stop settling for just a minor one in the story.

Howl said, “I think we ought to live happily ever after,” and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would make a good deal more eventful than any story made it sound, though she was determined to try. “It should be hair-raising,” added Howl. “And you’ll exploit me,” Sophie said. “And then you’ll cut up all my suits to teach me,” added Howl.

If you don’t do wild things while you’re young, you’ll have nothing to smile about when you’re old.

Whatever the endings, closure does not foreclose awareness but instead opens it—to suffering, to acceptance, to reconstruction, but always to the story of what was, is, and might be.

You want a storybook kind of closure with someone when they die, but I think that kind of thing is impossible.

If you’ve got something you want to say, then just say it. You can save us a lot of time with this f**kin’ pointless history lesson in this goddamn creepy, uninmpressive, f**kin’ hall. I don’t like it in here. It’s gross.

Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories.

We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

A girl and her Jeep is a story only you get to hear from bold girls.

Don’t compare your Chapter 1 to someone else’s Chapter 15. Follow your own path, write your own life story, and never give up on yourself.