Quotes of: True-story Keyword

Whatever the story means in the story which I told you, the fact of thinking in terms of stories does not isolate human beings as something separate from the starfish and the sea anemones, the coconut palms and the primroses. Rather, if the world be ...

Breaking Convention: Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live ...

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

I want to share my story, and I want to know yours. I believe with all my heart that sharing our stories, the real, ugly, broken ones, is one of the most powerful things in the world, because to share our story we must first accept it. We must own it...

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not. The people I have known who do that, I am convince...

The Music Lesson

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, s...

The Winter of Our Discontent

In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called "meddah. " They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a story in front of an audience, often improvising. With each new person in the story, the meddah would change his voice, ...

Elif Shafak

n the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self......

Cicero De Amicitia (On Friendship) And Scipio's Dream

Sparky Anderson wasn’t just my favorite manager … he was my mom’s favorite manager.

Cincinnati Reds IQ: The Ultimate Test of True Fandom

You no longer need other people in your life once you have found your true love.

City of Lost Souls

I decided quickly that committing crimes against grammar was a hard limit for me.

Diary of a Submissive: A Modern True Tale of Sexual Awakening

Faith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

The Da Vinci Code

There are those whose love awakens our own and those whose love undermines. As long as we are blind to this fact, true love will elude us.

Death and Life

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

Days of Blood & Starlight

Forgiveness is healing—everything is energy—thoughts create—we are all connected—what you resist persists—true love never dies—the soul’s immortality is the only true immortality—

Everlasting

It might be true that it is “quality time” that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

We live in one world together. It's more important than ever to be friend to all.

GreenBean: True Blue Family

It 'appens to be true. An' if'n yew want ter stay moi friend, yew'd best 'old yer turpitudinous twaddle of a tongue an' listen fer once.

Gang Loyalty

Is it true?" She asked. "Do you have a date?" "For the love of-you know it's true! And you told Adrian didn't you?

The Golden Lily

True happiness that stands the taste of time comes by recognizing and appreciating what we do possess.

Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy

To know true love, even though it was impossible to keep, had finally cracked her heart open enough to let someone else in.

Always with You

... a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly