The least livable life is the one without coherence-nothing connects, nothing means anything. Stories make connections. They allow … - Daniel Taylor

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I just never give up. I fight to the end. You can't go out and say, 'I want a bag of never-say-die spirit. ' It's not for sale. It has to be innate.

Daniel Taylor

The least livable life is the one without coherence-nothing connects, nothing means anything. Stories make connections. They allow us to see our past, our present, and our future as interrelated and purposeful. . . . The stories we value most reassure us that life is worth the pain, that meaning is not an illusion, and that others share our experience with us.

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Stories make it possible for us to be human.

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We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here, and what will become of us. Whenever humans try to make sense of their experience, they create a story, and we use those stories to answer all the big questions of life. The stories come from everywhere--from family, church, school, and the culture at large. They so surround and inhabit us that we often don't recognize that they are stories at all, breathing them in and out as a fish breathes water.

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We're not in people's faces, but I guess we're kind of in people's ears.

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Broken stories can be healed. Diseased stories can be replaced by healthy ones. We are free to change the stories by which we live.

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A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.

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