Our Stories Quotes
116 quotes by 95 authors
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Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself…
— Maya Angelou
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Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy…
— Byron Katie
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We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences,…
— Barbara Deming
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Love is who we are without our stories.
— Byron Katie
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We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full…
— Kathy Bates
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In the face of events that threaten to overwhelm our lives, storytelling gives us a way of reclaiming ourselves and reaffirming our connections with other…
— Victoria Alexander
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This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid,…
— John Green
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Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared with others, these…
— Susan Wittig Albert
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If you have a good story, it doesn’t have to be overproduced. I want our stories to reveal the wonders of the human spirit and…
— Huell Howser
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I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories,…
— Lesley Stahl
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Our stories arise from our hearts and our souls. In this sense, telling our stories becomes a sacred gesture, opening a clear way to that…
— Susan Wittig Albert
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The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable.
— Susan Wittig Albert
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They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked…
— Chrystos
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By nature, human beings search for ways to make sense and meaning out of their lives and their world. One way that we make meaning…
— Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and the…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is…
— Doris Lessing
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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
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If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers Let our grandchildren delight to find…
— Julian Assange
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Our stories can set us free. When we set them free.
— Francesca Lia Block
Who Wrote These Our Stories Quotes
95 authors contributed a total of 116 Our Stories Quotes, led by these top contributors: