About yourself Quote by Byron Katie

I have some great stories. But I am also very human, and I suffered an awful lot.

— Margaret Trudeau

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

— Clarice Lispector

When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those…

— Byron Katie

Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne.

— Anonymous

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

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Every successfully person have a pain story

— Anonymous

For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From them I…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

When I really want to be comforted myself, what I look for is a story about how somebody could survive something really difficult.

— Adam Silvera

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell…

— Nic Pizzolatto

The man who tells me an indelicate story does me an injury.

— James Thomas Fields

I'm not someone who seeks out stories of people who are suffering. I think they just kind of find me.

— Charlie Plummer

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

— Mark Frost