Denise deBois

“So every story is trying to make us feel busted up about something and makes us fall in love with a solution. The problem is when they stir up fear over the wrong things or stir up love for broken solutions.”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

“Saving is the gap between your ego and your income.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“There is one sense in which everyone is unique. No one else was born of your parents, at just that time of just that country’s history; no one underwent just your experiences, reached just your conclusions, or faces the world with the exact set of ideas that you must have. If you can come to such friendly terms with yourself that you are able and willing to say precisely what you think of any given situation or character, if you can tell a story as it can appear only to you of all the people on Earth, you will inevitably have a piece of work which is original”
― Dorothea Brande, Becoming a Writer

“We all desire to somehow shape our chaotic days into lives with meaning. That begins with punctuating our days with words: the words of prayer.”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction