"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."

Narrative, Hero, Media, Good, Evil

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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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"Relaxation is, a state between waking and sleeping, where the body is completely still and the mind is allowed to flow freely from one thought to another, or alternately, a state in which the mind becomes inadvertently calm."

Gudjon Bergmann, Icelandic Author

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"When you're telling a story, you're trying to connect to people in a particular way The way in which you guys have inhabited this world, this universe, has made you part of it, part of the story. You are living in Firefly. When I see you guys, I don't think the show is off the air. I don't think there's a show; I think that's what the world is like. The story is our lives."

Joss Whedon, American Writer

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"The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to."

Robert Creeley, American Poet

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"Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense."

Yann Martel, Canadian Author

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"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."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Life is a book."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Narrative, Book, Life, Read, Write

"Life is a book. We are writing the stories of our lives."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Narrative, Stories, Write, Book, Life

"Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals."

Yann Martel, Canadian Author

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"Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough."

Crystal Woods, American Poet

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"But that is another story."

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"Tap into 'The Force' and soon, at any given time that you need that extra shot of high octane confidence; you will soon be like a Jedi Master at this technique."

Spiritual

"She sat in a secluded room, she was mad, but she could not accept it; so she was neither sane nor insane. She could not be either until she knew herself, so in limbo she must die. She kept stuffing toilet roll into her mouth. They found her choked to death!"

Psychology

"When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you."

Mindfulness

"When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence."

Mindfulness

"I've been an inmate in Broadmoor, Rampton and Ashworth. I was one of 'them'. I was once Britain's most unstable madman! This book is a complete one off! If you're a nervous type of reader then don't read it. You've been warned! You are now entering the world of insanity; please keep hold of your sanity until the book comes to a stop!"

Experience

"Looking back at the years I spent in the asylums, I'm now convinced some of that insanity rubbed off onto me!"

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"Often the only difference between success and failure is not using Cosmic Ordering."

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"The first rule about the low hanging fruit principle is to always watch out for low hanging branches, they're the ones to take it away from you."

Advice

"The first rule when you are in a hole is to ask for a hand out!"

Advice

"The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you."

Healing