Quotes of: Personal-story Keyword

Had Mary Shelley fretted so? Maybe yes, maybe no. She’d begun her classic work on a dare. Had culled a dream to bring it into being. But it was not lost on Laura that the story might be a prolonged exercise in Shelley’s personal terrors. The subt...

The Novelist

I quickly, swiftly, reach in, pluck out, and peer into the mirror. 'I am still here.' I am in the glass, in this moment. After this moment, I may not be here; I may be a person who does not know where she is, or why. I leave the kitchen table to bath...

ORPHANS stories

I looked for any footmarks of course, but naturally, with all this rain, there wasn't a sign. Of course, if this were a detective story, there'd have been a convenient shower exactly an hour before the crime and a beautiful set of marks which could o...

Whose Body?

As Hamlet said to Ophelia, ”God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." The battle between these two halves of identity...Who we are and who we prebend to be, is unwinnable. "Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two...

Emily Thorne

do not only describe your situation, that event, that person, place or that thing. By describing, we limit our thoughts in pondering. We ought to prescribe. The sick describes his illness to the doctor and the doctor prescribes an antidote. We all do...

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

Kapil Dev

I'm not the most positive person.

Penny Marshall

I don’t respect my husband because he is the man and I am the woman, and it’s my “place” to submit to him. I respect Dan because he is a good person, and because he has made me a better person too.

A Year of Biblical Womanhood

Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristic of qu...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

No relationship can truly grow if you go on holding back. If you remain clever and go on safeguarding and protecting yourself, only personalities meet, and the essential centers remain alone. Then only your mask is related, not you. Whenever such a t...

Osho

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to ...

Charles Dickens

You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to ...

Bernie Siegel

God is triune, and all reality is structured in terms of Him. A brief definition of the Trinity might be this: One God without division in a plurality of Persons, and three Persons without confusion in a unity of essence. God is not 'basically' One, ...

David H. Chilton

An accomplishment sticks to a person.

Japanese

A sick person is a prisoner.

Yemeni

Art is not in some far-off place.

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

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

Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

And in blessing him I was blessed, And in comforting him I was comforted…

Daystar Rising: A Story of the First Christmas

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

For me, adoption was grief in reverse.

The Eye of Adoption: The True Story of My Turbulent Wait for a Baby

It's not your fault you had an unwanted dick in you.

Freak: The True Story of an Insecurity Addict