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Story Quotes
Story quotes celebrate the importance of giving value to sharing our stories. Everyone has a story to tell. Stories can restrict or expand our experience. Each of us has the power to create a new story. Your story is your life. You control the happy ending.
Read more...Our stories have healing power. Salman Rushdie says, “Those who do not have the power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.” My favorite is from Stone Evans, “Stop being so impressed with what other people are doing and get impressed about yourself. You have a story that the world wants to hear. Go tell it!” Do you have a story to share? Tell me about it. You can reach me through Marta@JoyofQuotes.com (Read less)
As you begin to pay attention to your own stories and what they say about you, you will enter into the exciting process of becoming, as you should be, the author of your own life, the creator of your own possibilities. Mandy Aftel
A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it. Fred Allen
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. Mary Kay Ash
Real love stories never have endings. Richard Bach
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. J.M. Barrie
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. Mary Catherine Bateson
Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people’s souls. Melody Beattie
No one else can speak the words on your lips. Drench yourself in words unspoken. Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten. Natasha Bedingfield
I really think that anyone who’s fortunate enough to live to be over fifty years old should take some time, even if it’s just a couple of weekends, to sit down and write the story of your life, even if it’s only twenty pages, and even if it’s only for your children and grandchildren…You’ll be surprised what you find. Bill Clinton
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. Isak Dinesen
To be a person is to have a story to tell. Isak Dinesen
Don’t die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul. Wayne Dyer
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 your laughter ‘till they bloom, ‘til you yourself burst into bloom. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Stop being so impressed with what other people are doing and get impressed about yourself. You have a story that the world wants to hear. Go tell it! Stone Evans
If a story is in you, it has got to come out. William Faulkner
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end...but not necessarily in that order. Jean Luc Godard
There is no friend as loyal as a book. Ernest Hemingway
Every one of us is a wonder. Every one of us has a story. Kristin Hunter
Love is who we are without our stories. Byron Katie
Telling stories is as basic to human beings as eating. More so, in fact, for while food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living. Richard Kearney
In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives. Sam Keen
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion. Barry Lopez
We are the hero of our own story. Mary McCarthy
Who are you?’ someone asks. ‘I am the story of my self,’ comes the answer. M. Scott Momaday
Our stories are singular but our destiny is shared. Barack Obama
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger. Ben Okri
You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you. John Powell
Some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner
The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it. Anthony Robbins
The universe is made up of stories, not atoms. Muriel Rukeyser
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. Rumi
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts. Salman Rushdie
The best teachers are the best storytellers. We learn in the form of stories. Frank Smith
I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. Gloria Steinem
Science is the storytelling of our time. William Irwin Thompson
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself. Mark Twain
When you make loving others the story of your life, there’s never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. Oprah Winfrey
You must define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script. Oprah Winfrey
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