Stories and Storytelling
- All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.--Isak Dinesen
- And it’s a human need to be told stories. The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.--Alan Rickman
- Be the best version of yourself in anything you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.--Stephen Curry
- The best teachers are the best storytellers.--Frank Smith (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
- Every life comes with a story ... and a possibility for a great adventure.--Kobi Yamada
- I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.--Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.--P. G. Wodehouse
- If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story.--Terry Pratchett (The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents)
- In the book of life we are chapters in one another's stories.--Unknown
- In the years since I began following the ways of my grandmothers I have come to value the teachings, stories, and daily examples of living which they shared with me. I pity the younger girls f the future who will miss out on meeting some of these fine old women.--Beverly Hungry Wolf
- Is there anyone we wouldn't love if we only knew their story?--Mary Lou Kownacki
- The key to the future of the world is finding the hopeful stories and letting them be known.-—Pete Seeger
- Leaders don’t just tell a better story; they make the story better.--Mark Sanborn (Fred 2.0)
- The life of every man is a diary, in which he means to write one story, and writes another.--Bess Streeter Aldrich (Cheers For Miss Bishop (movie based on the novel Miss Bishop))
- Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.--Phillip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
- Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.--Erskine Caldwell
- Nobody can tell your story like you can. Nobody can walk in your shoes like you can. So tell your story, let no one else write it for you. You are the only one who can tell it and you are the only one who can tell it right.--Debra J. Hopkins (quot;We Are the Voices of Change")
- Oh, but it is true. Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgot.--Neil Gaiman (Sandman: A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
- Our stories arise from our hearts and out souls. In this sense, telling our stories becomes a sacred gesture opening a clear way to that deep, ecstatic center where we are most uniquely our selves, individual and unique, and yet are ourselves, joined together at the heart. Once we understand this, we see that the stories of our daily lives, so rich with the experiences of trial and error, so deeply rooted in the here-and-now, so embodied and real and various - our ordinary stories are extraordinarily spirit filled. The routine exchanges, the daily duties, the everyday work: these become the heart-rich, soul-filled liturgies that sustain us. reminding us over and over that we are spiritual beings temporarily at home in human bodies, students working through a lifelong curriculum that teaches us to be human, each assigned her own daily lessons.--Susan Wittig Albert (Writing from Life : Telling Your Soul's Story)
- Photographs may illustrate what we have seen, but it is the stories we share which enable us to connect with others. When told well they may amuse, enlighten or even annoy us. But they won't leave us detached or neutral, neither when we listen nor when we tell.--John Bell (Thought for the Day, September 20, 2016)
- The planet does not need more "successful" people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every shape and form. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these needs have little to do with success as our culture has defined it.--David Orr
- Respect comes from understanding each other’s stories. But we shout over each other and forget to listen. If we listened, we would find that what the other person was saying is an echo of what we are saying ourselves.--—Muhtar Bakare
- Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared with others, these emotions can be powerfully uniting, as we see that we are not alone, and realize that others weep with us.--Susan Wittig Albert
- The shortest distance between a human being and Truth is a story.--Anthony de Mello (One Minute Wisdom)
- Stories are the glue that holds people together in families, communities, nations.--Jerry Large (The Seattle Times, November 9th, 2006)
- The stories that you tell about your past shape your future.--Eric Ransdell (in Fast Company)
- The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves determine the quality of the selves we imagine we are. The stories we tell about others determine the quality of our relationships with them.--Rami Shapiro (Hasidic Tales: Annotated and Explained()
- A story is told as much by silence as by speech.--Susan Griffin
- Story re-orders, sifts through experience, and allows others, young children and adults alike, to hear what we think truly matters. We are constituted by the stories we tell ourselves and others. Thus stories serve an ontological purpose. Story connects us with that which lies beyond ourselves and this process makes us ask questions about the meanings of our lives. It is, in fact, a way we can begin to define what we mean when we use the term "spirituality."--Barbara Kimes Myers (Young Children and Spirituality)
- Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit.-—Chinua Achebe
- Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.--Alice Walker
- The story teller makes no choice. Soon you will not hear his voice. His job is to shed light, and not to master. Since the end is never told, we pay the teller off in gold, in hopes he will return, but he cannot be bought or sold.--Grateful Dead ("Terrapin Station")
- Then he said to Scheherazade: "Sister, for the sake of Allah, tell us a story that will help pass the night."--The Arabian Nights
- There are tales that are older than most countries, tales that have long outlasted the cultures and the buildings in which they were first told.--Neil Gaiman
- Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.--Neil Gaiman
- The universe is made of stories, not atoms.--Muriel Rukeyser
- We are the hero of our own story.--Mary McCarthy
- We need more people who are willing … to own their own stories, live their values and keep showing up.--Brene Brown (Rising Strong: the Reckoning, the Rumble, the Revolution)
- We’re all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?--Steven Moffat ("The Big Bang")
- When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write a brave new ending.--Brene Brown
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