Breathe Quote by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Download Open image “We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.” — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Breathe Conceive Life Lives Narratives Our Our lives Storytelling Think
There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here,… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Our lives are a long series of acquiring and then sloughing narratives. — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative — whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said that each of us constructs and lives, a “narrative,” and that this narrative is us, our identities. If we wish to know about a man, we ask “what is his story — his real, inmost story?” — for… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. — William Throsby Bridges Copy Share Image
“Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition of narrative… — Jacqui Stedmon Copy Share Image
We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to corporatize the crops we grow, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the dreams we dream, corporate globalization needs an international confederation of loyal, corrupt, authoritarian governments in poorer countries to push through unpopular… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?' — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Manchester United breathe football. When I have to make hard decisions, I always listen to little boy inside me and what he wants. That… — Robin van Persie Copy Share Image
I drink to feel / I smoke to breathe / Just look what love / Has done to me — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share
In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to… — Aden Young Copy Share Image
