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"The scenario where the sprawling anti-hero gets his comeuppance and the champion walks off into the sunset with his arm around the prize, usually a woman, is a pleasing one. This media personification of what a hero is all about used to be the common norm. Examining past events can confirm this convoluted outlook that sees the baddie being portrayed as some sort of evil manifestation sent to cause havoc by any means possible."
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"We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear."
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"Many stories magnify a fact."
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"It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say."
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Personal Development
"It's in The Lord of the Rings, I think, where one of the characters says that "way leads on to way"; that you could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go . . . well, anywhere at all. It's the same way with stories. One leads to the next, to the next, and to the next; maybe they go in the direction you wanted to go, but maybe they don't. Maybe in the end it's the voice that tells the stories more than the stories themselves that matters."
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"It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues."
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"Life is a book."
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"The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to."
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"I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story."
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"But that is another story."
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"Showing up begins long before you stand at the start. Prove yourself an exception in a world where people talk more than act. Intent without follow-through is hollow. Disappoint yourself enough times and empty is how you feel. Make yourself proud. Fill yourself up. Show up."
Action
"Forgive someone today. Especially if that someone is you."
Mindfulness
"Like flowers blooming through cement,we, too, can grow beyond our cracks."
Resilience
"Embrace those parts of yourself that you've skillfully avoided until now. That's your true adventure."
Self
"Endings are the embryos of new beginnings."
Renewal
"The cruise was the conduit for what would become my third book. While I was traveling and writing for ctnow.com, women across the United States and from the Caribbean emailed not to ask about my geographic journey but my existential one. "How do you find the courage to travel on your own? they wondered. "How do you keep from getting lonely? Don't you feel self-conscious eating out alone? After the first 30 emails like these I thought, There's a book here. It would be eight years before I published Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road. But the inspiration for publication came during the cruise."
Art
"When actors encounter a mishap during a stage performance,they transform it for good purpose by employing a technique called,"use the difficulty. How can you "use the difficulty in your life?"
Philosophy
"New insights from being present are a gift."
Presence
"Risk: no full life occurs without it."
Philosophy
"From the depths of your well, tap your will."
Will
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