Enchantment Quote by Anais Nin

Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne.

— Anonymous

Maybe if people can't have an end to their suffering, the next thing they seek for is to know why they suffer. Suffering is…

— Matthew J. Kirby

...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves…

— Deena Metzger

Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that…

— M. John Harrison

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

— Clarice Lispector

“Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness.

— Luanne Rice

By nature, human beings search for ways to make sense and meaning out of their lives and their world. One way that we make…

— Susan Campbell Bartoletti

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

— Philip Pullman

Stories are like genies...They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing.…

— Francesca Lia Block

“Because fairy tales contain powerful truths about the human condition, many of them, with tenacity and uncanny persistence, turn up, theme and variation, in…

— Gertrud Mueller Nelson