“Ask yourself before your next major decision ‘If I were a character in a story, what decision would make the story more interesting?’ You’ll be surprised at how differently you feel about the decision. You’ll weigh excitement over safety, risk over comfort. You’ll likely decide to love people more, quit your job, bring home roses, leap off the cliff into the water and so on. Great characters in exciting stories don’t sit around on the couch playing it safe. They get up, move, try, fail and risk it all again. Living a great story costs something. People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.”

--Donald Miller