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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    tags: experience, life, patience, questions
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
    tags: inspirational, story-teller, storytelling, your-gift
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    Criss Jami
    “The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: artist, artists-life, creative, experiences, live, meaning-of-life, purpose, sharing, stories, storytelling
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    Chip Heath
    “To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?”
    ― Chip Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
    tags: audience, communication, get-them-to-think
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    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
    ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    tags: adversity, beauty, empathy, people, understanding
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    “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: compassion, empathy, loneliness, love
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    Robin McKinley
    “But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.”
    ― Robin McKinley, Dragonhaven
    tags: authorial-license, storytelling, truth
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    Rabih Alameddine
    “...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.”
    ― Rabih Alameddine, The Hakawati
    tags: perception, reality, stories, story, storytelling
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    Eudora Welty
    “Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.”
    ― Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings
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    Brian P. Cleary
    “Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.”
    ― Brian P. Cleary, You Oughta Know By Now
    tags: humor, observational-comedy, observations, storytelling
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    Keith Johnstone
    “Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.”
    ― Keith Johnstone
    tags: acceptance, faith, peace-of-mind, serenity
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    Nora Ephron
    “In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. ”
    ― Nora Ephron
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    Ralph Ellison
    “What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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    Ralph Ellison
    “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery
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    Ralph Ellison
    “Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: inspriational-quotes
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Maya Angelou
    “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: oprah-s-thank-you-game, people
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    Maya Angelou
    “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: inspiration
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    Maya Angelou
    “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Pema Chödrön
    “A Native American grandfather was speaking to his grandson about violence and cruelty in the world and how it comes about. He said it was as if two wolves were fighting in his heart. One wolf was vengeful and angry, and the other wolf was understanding and kind. The young man asked his grandfather which wolf would win the fight in his heart. And the grandfather answered, “The one that wins will be the one I choose to feed.”
    ― Pema Chödrön, Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears
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    “A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.”
    ― Amy Poehler
    tags: inspirational, life, tragedy
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  • #24
    “I believe great people do things before they are ready.”
    ― Amy Poehler, Yes Please
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    Twyla Tharp
    “Creativity is an act of defiance.”
    ― Twyla Tharp
    tags: art, creativity
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    Twyla Tharp
    “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”
    ― Twyla Tharp
    tags: dance, performance
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    Twyla Tharp
    “The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.”
    ― Twyla Tharp
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    Martha Graham
    “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”
    ― Martha Graham
    tags: art, be-yourself, creativity, dance, dancing, expression, self-expression
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    Roxane Gay
    “When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.”
    ― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
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