Jeanette-leblanc Quote by Jeanette LeBlanc Download Open image ““These words and these stories can save a life. Who knows – maybe even your own.”” — Jeanette LeBlanc ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jeanette-leblanc Language Life Stories Wild-heart Wisdom Words Writing
“I often say that reading and writing saved my life. I mean that quite literally.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“The best story in life, is your own. The only story that you truly lived and died for.” — Kay Copy Share Image
“Our stories have lives of their own-and it's up to us to make them mean something.” — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
“Tell me, just how many lives need to be lost until someone realises the impact that their words can have on another individual?” — Isha Barlas Copy Share Image
“In life you must write your own story, or one will be written for you.” — A.J. Garces Copy Share Image
“That's why people loved stories so, I realized in that instant, because they found in them what was missing from their own lives, the… — Brandy Purdy 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
“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Writers of the world, if you’ve got a story, I want to hear it. I promise it will follow me to my last breath. My soul will dance with pleasure, and it’ll change the quality of all my waking hours. You will hearten me and brace me up for the hard days as they enter my life on the prowl.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share
“Stories often project the best that humanity has to offer. If only we could live up to our stories.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“Do not settle for living a version of your life designed by another. You are not meant to be gatekeeper or the holder of secrets and shame. You are here to live free and clear and into your own wide open truth. If you are spending too much time around people who expect otherwise you will begin to notice a… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share
“You will, at times, be the most selfish asshole you can possibly imagine. You will step out of your own integrity. You will do things you thought you would never do. The temptation is there to let your actions define your being. To carry the weight of your own failure and to live in a state of perpetual penance. Do… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share
“Isn’t it incredible, I think to myself, how what we name miracle may just be a measure of what we cannot easily reach.” — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“You are not a failure. And you are not alone. This I know to be true. Read these lines as many times as you… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“People often wondered what it was that made her so very compelling. Why she drew people in again and again? It wasn’t her beauty or her talent, though many, including myself, found those impossible to argue. I believe it was because she refused to deny the storm of her. She wasn’t all sunny days and brightness, and she knew it.… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share
“You will always be my teachers, just as much or more than I am yours. Do not think – nor let anyone convince you… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“I see you, flawed and humble and road weary and proud and still in spite of the deep ache, somehow sure you’ve done all you can. I see all you feel but cannot speak. I see the way the words grow and swell, expanding your chest and pressing against the confines in your throat until they form the most unbearable… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share
“Perhaps all love affairs are nothing more than the projections of hopeful hearts looking for soft lodging in a world that would have them be hard. Perhaps. Perhaps love is always just this; the suspension of disbelief and the fierce welcoming of a shared and altered reality. Is not the impossible always made possible by love? The ridiculous transformed to… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share
“You alone own your story. Do not let another tell it, and if you find yourself in the company of one determined to rewrite your words or own your narrative, fight like hell until you hold it again. There is little in life that is solely ours. Your story is one of those priceless few things. It is beyond precious.… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share
“I’m mesmerized by lipstick prints on coffee cups. By the lines of lips against white pottery. By the color chosen by the woman who sat and sipped and lived life. By the mark she leaves behind. Some people read tea leaves and others can tell your future through the lines on your palm. I think I’d like to read lipstick… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share
“You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution. There are no bystanders who get to claim no impact. What mark will… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“Do not try quiet my voice. Do not attempt to soften my edges or tame my prowl. I am inhabiting my wild. I am… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“Do not settle for living a version of your life designed by another. You are not meant to be gatekeeper or the holder of secrets and shame. You are here to live free and clear and into your own wide open truth. If you are spending too much time around people who expect otherwise you will begin to notice a… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share
“You will, at times, be the most selfish asshole you can possibly imagine. You will step out of your own integrity. You will do things you thought you would never do. The temptation is there to let your actions define your being. To carry the weight of your own failure and to live in a state of perpetual penance. Do… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share
“You are not a failure. And you are not alone. This I know to be true. Read these lines as many times as you… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“You will always be my teachers, just as much or more than I am yours. Do not think – nor let anyone convince you… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“I see you, flawed and humble and road weary and proud and still in spite of the deep ache, somehow sure you’ve done all you can. I see all you feel but cannot speak. I see the way the words grow and swell, expanding your chest and pressing against the confines in your throat until they form the most unbearable… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share
“You alone own your story. Do not let another tell it, and if you find yourself in the company of one determined to rewrite your words or own your narrative, fight like hell until you hold it again. There is little in life that is solely ours. Your story is one of those priceless few things. It is beyond precious.… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share
“You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution. There are no bystanders who get to claim no impact. What mark will… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“Do not try quiet my voice. Do not attempt to soften my edges or tame my prowl. I am inhabiting my wild. I am… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“This story is always yours for the telling. This has always been yours. You can expand to fill it all or take up the smallest corner. You can write in invisible ink. You can tell your story in red wine stains and spilled ink and bite marks. You can only write in pencil so it can always be erased. You… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share
“The art of a sincere and heartfelt apology is one of the greatest skills you will ever learn.” — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“Be gentle. Pay attention. Offer purposeful healing. Seek Equilibrium. Unfreeze, slowly. Stretch yourself out into the world. Let your eyes calibrate to this new light and notice how it caresses the lines and curves and soft and hard of you. Allow your mouth to twist and stumble around new shapes. Be so very sensory. Notice everything. From every angle. The… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share
“You hold the collective story of all women in your body. The muscle memory of generations past. This is your legacy, but it is not a prediction of your reality or your future. The difference is both delicate and profound and worth exploring. Pull in the wisdom of generations upon generations of witches and wild women and pioneers and mothers… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share