Best Our Story Sayings
92 Our Story quotes by 77 unique authors
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If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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See," he began, leaning back into the booth, "I was at this car dealership today, and I saw this girl. It was an across-a-crowded-room kind…
— Sarah Dessen
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Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot -- in this case, my brother, Shaun -- deciding…
— Mira Grant
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This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve…
— Jandy Nelson
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Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not…
— Brené Brown
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How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme." "Bizarre and…
— Shannon Hale
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Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so often. Over the…
— Jonathan Carroll
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Ahem. Dear Jesus," Taylor intoned more fervently. "We just want to thank you for gettin' us here safe ---" There was a loud, gurgling groan.…
— Libba Bray
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It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.
— Karen Russell
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I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left…
— Clive Barker
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Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.
— Brené Brown
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It's not the time we spend but how we spend the time that truly tells our story.
— Tonya Hurley
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When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people,…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.
— Brené Brown
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Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.
— George Saunders
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But what else can I do, other than to plead with you like this? Other than to write down my story, our story, to show…
— Lucy Christopher
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When we can let go of what other people think and own our story, we gain access to our worthiness—the feeling that we are enough…
— Brené Brown
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It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals…
— Virginia C. Andrews
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Our story is over, yes, but our journey isn't, because we'll always live on the edge until the day we die.
— J.A. Redmerski
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Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being shared. Shame loves…
— Brené Brown
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We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.
— Pema Chodron
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In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head…
— John Badham
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We so often change the story of our life to suit others. We adapt our story to help it survive, but in the process, does…
— Senoraroy
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77 authors contributed a total of 92 Our Story Quotes, led by these top contributors: