Quotes of: Personal-story Keyword

If there is one thing I have come to believe over the years, it’s the notion that there really is somebody for everybody. Every single person is going to look at beauty from a different angle. Every single person is going to be attracted to certain...

Single Dad Laughing

The ancients said that for persons who cultivated body and mind, and who are virtuous and honorable, death is an experience of liberation, a long-awaited rest from a lifetime of labors. Death helps the unscrupulous person to put an end to the misery ...

Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living

Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person yo...

The Viscount Who Loved Me

Well the other thing about lying is that the liar is banking on two things when telling the lie. They are hoping that the person being lied to is gullible enough to believe, and it’s also not even that they think they are gullible, it’s that they...

And When the Arguing's Over...

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order t...

Desmond Tutu

Whenever I travel to a poor country, I try to help at least one person. Usually, that person helps me just as much - I can find a local poor person to be my guide or my interpreter. That person makes money from me, I make money from him or her, we bo...

William T. Vollmann

!!!.. "That" happiness most of us searched for (and we thought it’s about getting a person but it) was never about getting a person, we started perceiving that “person” as our life goal and we thought all we have to do in life is to get this pe...

Life

Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.

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

She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.

Four: A Divergent Story Collection

My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.

Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

To now is to love, to see is a joy, but to lose is hurtful.

Bam Bam's Story: A Celebrated Life

Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")

Collected Stories, Vol. 1

It is only human to be kind to others.

The City Heroes and Other Stories from the Heart of Africa

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

Neil Gaiman

The word “future” and females is a dangerous combination.

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Physical attractiveness is no indicator of an individual's beauty." from "The Beauty of Ugh

I am not Frazzle!: And other stories for grown-ups

Would you believe in a story without the heroes? There are stories without heroes.

Just the Way I Feel

Worry wasn’t an emotion to which he was particularly accustomed—and it worried him.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

I should think a dead language would be rather boring, socially speaking.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

Well, enough of this introspection. It’s depressing, quite frankly.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening