Quotes of: Life-story Keyword

Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life – of my grandfather’s ...

The Tiger's Wife

You can’t forget how important coming together is, whether it be a mom and a son, a dad and a daughter, whether the family be ten people, or twenty people, or a million people. Dinnertime is the perfect time for that. Dinnertime is the perfect time...

Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life 1912 to 2012

Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the strange conviction, for example, that everything in life that happens to me also has a sense, that it ...

The Joke

Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.

Laurence Overmire

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

William Throsby Bridges

Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards

Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

Guys and Dolls: The Stories of Damon Runyon

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

The Story of My Life

People kill very important people to change the season in their life.

The Story that Changed the World

Not everyone's life will be a great love story.

A Working Theory of Love

I wanted life that's comfortable enough for me, my ambitions and love.

OFW: This is My Life and Story

I want everyone that has been abused by someone in their childhood to know that you can get past it. Having DID is not the end of the world; it's the beginning of your new life. DID allows the victim of exceptional abuse the ability to “forget” t...

A Shattered Mind: One Woman's Story of Survival and Healing

There are times in my life when I have been medicine for some while poison for others. I used to think I was a victim of my story until I realized the truth; that I am the creator of my story. I choose what type of person I will be and what type of i...

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Night had fallen, and Diane admired the deep sky behind Steve's calm countenance. They looked into each other's eyes again and felt the spark and excitement of discovery. As if to celebrate the perfect, life-enabling distance of the earth from the su...

Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

It is easy to forget, not that we ever should, that everything in this world is an accident, including the origin of life itself, plus the accumulation of riches. We should show more respect for nature, not less. An accident isn't necessarily ever ov...

Some Sexual Success Stories: Plus Other Stories in Which God Might Choose to Appear

I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

I’m not saying that you should deny the difficult events of your life. But the fact that you survived is also a wonderful story to tell. And that story, the story of the way you came through a difficult situation, found resources within yourself or...

Golda Poretsky

We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other people to learn from these. We have difficulty remembering such abstractions, but we can more easily remember a good story. St...

Love

My dogs have been the reason I have woken up every single day of my life with a smile on my face.

The Divinity of Dogs: True Stories of Miracles Inspired by Man's Best Friend

And you know what I realize now? That we're all waiting on something, no matter where we are in life. It's the human condition.

The Antelope in the Living Room: The Real Story of Two People Sharing One Life

Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry