We intend to hide our shortcomings, and the fear inside our hearts, but instead, we hide our beauty, our true selves.
There is a powerful shifting that takes place as we abandon the right to understand and yield to God's working in our lives.
Silence, shame, guilt, or any other emotional torment simply cannot rob us of God's love, of his plan for us.
True emotional healing lies somewhere between intentional choices and divine intervention, a junction of surrender, faith, trust, and action.
Those thin places where truth seeps through, those are the places where Jesus walks --- the places we find healing.
Narrator: For the first time in his life, Grenouille realized that he had no smell of his own. He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was a though he did not exist.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything
Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
All of life, Orhan realizes, is a story within a story; how we choose to listen and which words we choose to speak makes all the difference.
Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.
Everything in life is a story just waiting to be written.
Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.
I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.
Will Bloom: Unbelievable. Senior Ed Bloom: The story of my life.
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.
