Story Quotes

Some people don’t want to hurt your feelings.

I would rather have 10, 000 stories than 10, 000 in my bank account @myhumancompass Roy ('Backpack') Baron author of Looking Glass Shattered.

A good story makes a journey go by more quickly. A really good story makes you forget you are even on a journey.

I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told.

People add color to their story because they think it happened in black and white.

To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're likely not to forget it. But, to live through a struggle, you'll understand it.

Be my bedtime story and the thoughts that won't let me fall asleep. Be the conversation that I always have in my head at 3 AM and that beautiful voice that never lets me sleep.

Sometimes, we think faster than what we write.

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection

One dead and one alone. That's how the story ends.

She was drawn to the wild warriors, they had to have a little gypsy in their veins.

Each story provides a beginning, a middle and an end, the trick is, never seperate them through the chapters or you'll miss the meaning of the entire book.

Sometimes we focus on the lyrics too much and forget to dance to the music.

You story must be best told by you. Your experience is a sacred life.

All the stories give unique inspiration.

We are grateful for a happy marriage and a glorious future. Four years of a happy marriage! Happy Anniversary my dearest husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita! I love you with all my heart, soul and body.

Music is a great healer.

We have more control than most of us realize. Each day is filled with thousands of opportunities to change the story of our lives.

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls...

If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story.

Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference.

Life is Like a Book, You cant Just read the Back, you Have to Dive in and Experience The Story within

A myth, in its original Greek meaning- muthos- is simply that: a story, one which seeks to render life transparent to an intelligible source.

In the absence of a story or foundation that gives hope or meaning, life has become a never-ending quest for pleasure and experience. Instead of being good, people want to feel good.

Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship.

No matter our size or shape, everyone deserves a safe place in this world." ~ from BIG SMALL DOG, a children's story about overcoming bullying and adversity, and discovering unity and friendship.

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you.

History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.

The main problem in a person's life is never his suffering

I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.

Yes, I was a badass all right. And I no longer felt like I needed someone, but instead WANTED someone to share this newfound badassery with. I deserved the best. Anything else wouldn't do.

Once upon a time Karen saw somebody nobody else could see. She thought to ask an old man: who were you? Once upon a time I thought to dream of medicine. Now I dream of medicine by the sea.

it’s being branded a failure that causes the most pain

But every spiteful word she ever wrote him was effortless love clenched in her fists. Her heart screaming for stability in this fiery game of desire.

I wrapped my arms around him like I was saving an oak tree.

His hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain-drenched clothes.

I am who I am and always shall be.

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best- write the story you want to read.

I advise all people that have had an interaction with the police to obtain a copy of the police report, as you may find a very different story in there to what actually occurred.

Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.

We must be able to look under the surface rather than over-analyze it and delude ourselves into thinking we’re seeing beneath it.

Just do it. Now.

This is your story and you get to decide how it's written.

Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared.

I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is. Which Zen guy said "If you want to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water"?

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

The smiting and righteous retribution happens less often than you would think - Hades

You and I have been friends long enough to know how to treat each other . . . I'm leaving for college. I think I've outgrown the rules.

If she had looked into his eyes at that very moment she would have seen the inferno that she had thrown him into.

I should walk away. That would be the right thing to do. It would be the smart thing. But I can't, because I'm Taylor Caldwell, the girl who cuts.