We are always telling stories to ourselves, about ourselves... But we can control those stories... I believe that! Events in our life have meaning because we choose to give it to them

Dan Chaon
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More Quotes By Dan Chaon
  1. Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

  2. You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future, a cantilever that holds you, so that you are not alone.

  3. He had built his own future brick by brick around himself but there were no doors or windows, at least that was the way it seemed at the time he had thought to himself, I am locked in, it was like one of those ghost...

  4. I guess I always thought it would be bigger, when a terrible thing happened. Didn't you think so? Doesn't it seem like houses ought to be caving in, and lightning and thunder, and people tearing their hair in the street? I never - I never...

  5. I realized that I had the choice. I could give this moment a meaning, or I could choose to ignore it. It just depended on the kind of story I wanted to tell myself.

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