The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What a...
What is the one thing that gets you up every morning? The one thing that keeps you going every day, every month, every year? Let me get you started. My one thing is this, ‘I'm one day closer...’ One day closer to a goal, an outcome, or the result...
To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here we touch not just part ...
It is known that the Quran leaves an analytical reader the impression of disarrangement, and that it seems to be a compound of diverse elements. Nevertheless, the Quran is life, not literature. Islam is a way of living rather than a way of thinking. ...
We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We need to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of...
Your power is in your story and all the wisdom it has brought you.
How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.
Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.
Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.
It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.
In a market, preceptions could be as important as reality. p.403
It's the broken plans you have made that are the hardest to get over.
Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler")
Daa-r'uu Wee-z'oo." -Ettie the Explorer
Every song deserves lyrics. Deserves a story to tell.
99 percent of all statistics only tell 49 percent of the story.
That’s the last thing we need. Zombys in a Vampyre story. . Ugh!
Every story is informed by a worldview.
No matter how good a story is, there is more at stake in the telling.
Books tended not to switch their stories whenever it suited them.
Our stories hold unique inspiration for one another.
