Human nature Quote by Ramsay MacMullen

“It’s humbling, though, to think of all the stories that used to be, when they were at their best - before they were stories,…

— Paul Glennon

“We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Perhaps writing a story or a novel was not something that should be done for money, or to win praise, but for the sheer…

— Vanessa Wu

“Coming abruptly, and without giving me time to trace it accurately to its source among so many ideas of a very different kind, the…

— Marcel Proust

“We understand the world by how we retrieve memories, re-order information into stories to justify how we feel.”

— Stephen Elliott

“The best stories, however, are living things, and as much as we may cherish the original, the true act of love comes in the…

— Anne Boyd Rioux

“There are indeed many wonders, and with regard to the stories people tell one another, it may be that such tales go beyond the…

— Pindar

“It seems to be in our genetic makeup to capture our best ideas in stories, to enjoy them, to learn from them, and to…

— Blake Mycoskie

“When we say ‘I’, we mean the story in our head, not the onrushing stream of experiences we undergo.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We had just heard that story recounted so many times over the years that it was easy to take the details and fold them…

— Sarah Dessen

“Although the telling of our story is a learning tool, we must use caution lest we are swept away in the compulsive momentum of…

— Kim Lincoln

“He had already learned to read, but now he learned the pleasure of stories which is like no other pleasure—the experience of slipping sideways…

— M.R. Carey