We're wired for story. In a culture of scarcity and perfectionism, there's a surprisingly simple reason we want to own, integrate, and share our stories of struggle. We do this because we feel the mos...
What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.
(pl. ) of Story
I am not here to compete in the war of words, I am here to nurture the future of stories.
The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal.
Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life, but on a deeper level stories help us explore issues that are ot...
When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.
Those stories tended to be located around the places where things went wrong, and people were cruel to one another, and so on. They reflected what was probably the most urgent truth operating in me at...
A story has value whether it's true or not.
The universe is made of stories, not atoms!
Surely you know that pleasure soon evaporates, into thin air?Then all we are left with are stories.
There are always two sides to a story.
How can life end in the middle of the story? Because life always does.
Every good story needs a good, bad and lost soul. A people to fight for, an item to turn the tide of battle, an enigmatic character, a motivator/mentor, and an unlikely reluctant hero.
Some stories end in despair, some begin there
The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.
I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.
But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be...
I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to the big story of the world. People weren't islands, so far as I was concerned. How...
Stories aren't made of language: they're made of something else. A little earlier I said that stories were about life; perhaps they're made of life.
There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.
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