Quotes About Story

Dear family, you are the author of your destiny. In your hands is the ending of your story and the start of a new one each time a baby is born. God knows what He's doing.

Maybe you shouldn't blame anyone, but accept that this is your sister's story, and the ending belongs to her.

One story is good, till another is told.

Economics- a story of pain, teaching us a lot of complicated but sound reasons why a great many nice things aren't possible.

She listened to a life's story that was, she discovered, richer than it was sad.

Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear.

Why live in a soap opera when you can star in a great love story?

Life is God's novel. Let him write it. — ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER

Luke Skywalker? I thought he was just a myth.

In most children but in relatively few adults, at least in our time, we may see this willingness to be delighted to the point of self-abandonment. This free and full gift of oneself to a story is what produces the state of enchantment. But why do we lose the desire—or if not the desire, the ability—to give ourselves in this way?

If magic exploits our capacity to continuously, unconsciously modify events in the ongoing world to form a story, even at the expense of everything we know to be possible in the universe, then we are indeed master editors, tirelessly working to communicate to others and ourselves a meaningful tale.

there is a deeper happiness to be had in knowing that your life is part of a story of flourishing than there is in merely pursuing entertainment.

Myth is truth which is subjective, intuitive, cultural and grounded in faith.

Treta yuga, when the bull of dharma stands on three legs. Krishna's story takes place in a later, third quarter of the world, the Dvapara yuga, when the bull of dharma stands on two legs.

The aim of his narrative is to remind all not to judge people without knowing their story. Even the worst of villains has a story that perhaps explains their actions, without condoning them.

both mythology and philosophy present the same idea: the former communicates through a story, along with symbols and rituals, while the latter uses precise language. Mythology creates a more visceral experience, and so appeals to everyone, not just the intellectual.

Even the worst of villains has a story that perhaps explains their actions, without condoning them.

My story can never be your story (that is called colonization—something I hope we are leaving behind). But my story might inform yours, or be like yours, or maybe even add depth or another dimension to yours. If nothing else, sharing our stories might lead to greater understanding, tolerance, appreciation, and perhaps even celebration of our differences.

The overarching narrative of the Bible is that of humanity searching for home.

Thus Christianity becomes a story of accumulated human experience of God that reveals a certain kind of wisdom in the world: To love God and love one's neighbor constitutes the good life. Love is, as the apostle Paul wrote, the greatest of all things. Without love we are, as the good apostle said flatly, "nothing" (1 Cor. 13). Without love, Christianity is either a pretty bad joke or a twisted political agenda.

The baby, the star, and the wise men: a story of gifts and radical gratitude. Joy to the world!

Perhaps now that she'd told the story, it would lose its power over her. She hoped she would never have to repeat it to anyone ever again.

But he had a story. I guess everybody did. People walked around with this thick dark film sticking to them and until you scratched it, you had no idea.

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.