Life Quote by David Whyte Download Open image ““the lost sense that we play out our lives as part of a greater story”” — David Whyte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life Life quotes Lives Story
“Our lives are a story shaped by circumstance, twisted by Fate, and ultimately judged by how we reacted.” — Mary Marchese Copy Share Image
“Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“We live in a story in our heads that is always trying to get us to 'do' life, telling us we need to make… — Mary O'Malley Copy Share Image
“So I believe in the redeeming power of stories, I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Our stories are all we have. The only thing that can save us is to learn each other's stories. From beginning to end…For every… — Karen Fisher Copy Share Image
“But, no one can tell without cease our human story, and so we lose, lose” — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice.” — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
“What we lose is any sense that life is alive, she thought. The days follow one after the other and everything passes us by.… — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
“We live in a story in our heads that is always trying to get us to “do” life, dictating to us, telling us we… — Mary O'Malley Copy Share Image
“Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and,… — Joan Lingard Copy Share Image
“they have priorities beyond merely being safe and living longer; that the chance to shape one’s story is essential to sustaining meaning in life;… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Life is a great puzzle that is woven into the pieces of time. The more we live the more apparent it gets, and it… — Dr. Lucas D. Shallua Copy Share Image
“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill? — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with, it is the mother of the thing you fear. The very thing… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but the child… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Work, like marriage, is a place you can lose yourself more easily perhaps than finding yourself. It is a place full of powerful undercurrents,… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“...wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen.” — David Whyte Copy Share Image
It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart...so it can be a… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image