"No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners."

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Bob Goff

#Mistake Quotes #Book Quotes #Stories Quotes

“...like the 75 billion souls who lived before him, each and every one a treasure, he, too, will die.”

Source : Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.269, Bantam
“When we're talking about the transformation, we can add in the 25 pounds I've gained - I've been eating my way through the wireless industry.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joyâ€”the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
“I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy.”
“I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.”

Source : "Raising Hope's Lucas Neff on starting stand-up and how his show apes The Simpsons". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 5, 2013.
“I first studied to be a preacher, but decided that I was too prone to tell big stories. Then I studied Blackstone for a while and soon learned that I was not adept enough at prevarication to make a successful lawyer. I then made up my mind that I would seek some field where I could tell big stories and tell the truth.”
“We all think weâ€™re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations arenâ€™t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.”
“I'm here today because I hated everything else.”

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