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“You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.”
― Anthony De Mello

“Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.”
― Anthony de Mello

“Our world is moving so fast and we are apt to miss so much of what is happening "right now." If we can put down our smart phones for one moment and be present to what is around us, I believe these incidental meetings and strangers who come into our lives can give us unexpected fortitude, perspective and even wisdom just when we need them the most - if we are just awake, aware and open to these new insights.”
― Kristin S. Kaufman, Is This Seat Taken?: Random Encounters That Change Your Life

“Why do bad things happen to good people?'

'Because it makes a good story.”
― Andrew Kaufman, The Waterproof Bible

“Thousands of individuals unknowingly contribute to the creation of our lives. Over the years, these serendipitous exchanges made imprints on my mind and heart and served as catalysts for my ongoing growth and development.”
― Kristin S. Kaufman, Is This Seat Taken?: Random Encounters That Change Your Life

“Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy...”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.”
― Sanhita Baruah

“My wishes before I die, to fulfill my mission on earth; The writing of my life stories to inspired present and future generations.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I walked through the house to the back porch and found the screen door covered top to bottom, side to side, with cats meowing for food. . . . They were so thick on the door I could barely see the light between them.”
― Earl B. Russell, Cold Turkey at Nine: The Memoir of a Problem Child

“Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.”
― Nina Sankovitch, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

“The stories we pretend do not exist, are the stories that will haunt us till the end.”
― Srividya Srinivasan

“The written word is the greatest sacred documentation.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita , Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“I was struck by the image of Daddy still dressed in that same plaid shirt and undershirt with the bloodstains below the neck, the one I had first seen him wearing in the jail the previous day.”
― Earl B. Russell, Cold Turkey at Nine: The Memoir of a Problem Child

“The African continent has so many stories to tell, it's about time they are told, by them - not us.”
― Akilnathan Logeswaran

“We seek to understand ourselves by telling how we go about securing inner peace, acceptance, and satisfaction intermeshed with layers of pure happiness. Stories allow us to explore the mystery of the universe, share unique experiences, and express personal comprehension.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Don't sit, stand up! Do something; you can do wrong, but no problem, do it! At least you will have a story to tell others! If you don't do something, you will be storyless! And what is life? Life is nothing but a book of stories we write!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Somehow
I always expect that one day
The doors will speak out to me
And share their past
Life as it was centuries ago
Perhaps they have and
I did not listen”
― Maria Lehtman, The Dreaming Doors: Through the Soul Gateways

“A heart in love is a thriller book of many stories”
― Munia Khan

“The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy.”
― Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays

“Freedom is found within, in the shape of our laughter and the way we love, in the truths that we live by and the stories we become”
― Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.

“I considered myself a little too old to have a babysitter but the girl who looked after me was playful as well as beautiful! At what age does a boy start noticing the opposite sex? Well, I didn’t mind Tiffany’s attention and always enjoyed when she looked after me! In turn, I could not keep my eyes off of her. In 1949, she married Raymond, who had been a Chief Petty Officer in the Navy during the Second World War. In time, they had a son whom they named after his father. Young Raymond unfortunately was later killed in an auto accident. The lesson I learned from this was that we are all mortal and that terrible things can happen to good people, or more directly, “Shit happens!”
― Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One"

“If you are too much interested in the story of others, then your own story will be orphaned!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

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― Temsula Ao, Laburnum For My Head

“Ruhi blushed. She had a peculiar way of being
embarrassed. She would restrain a smile and look at my wrist, or my ring, or my sleeves, or my shirt collar - just about any place that would keep her gaze away from my eyes.”
― Ameya Bondre, Afsaane - A Collection of Short Stories

“There is no way to live only in your own story; one way or another, you will get into the story of others!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“We need to control our stories, narratives, and truths.”
― Carlos Wallace

“We all have stories. Some of us write, some of us just feel.”
― Garima Soni - words world