Top 100 Life Time Story Quotes

#1. I've never been a believer in fate. I like to think I'm in control, that my life hasn't been plotted out ahead of time. Sometimes all it takes is one wild thought, one brave decision to change everything. This must be one of those times.

Kyle Richardson

Life Time Story Quotes #12540
#2. I always wanted to be a hero
to sacrifice my life in a big way one time
and yet, God has required my sacrifice to be thousands of days, over many years, with one more kiss, one more story, one more meal.

Sally Clarkson

Life Time Story Quotes #18618
#3. There is a story I always tell my students ... when I came for the 1st time to the US. I didn't speak English (Only Spanish) & I saw on every door the word "exit" which in Spanish means Success = Exito. And then I said :"No wonder Americans are winners ,every door they open leads to success

Pablo

Life Time Story Quotes #29736
#4. Falling in love with a story is like falling in love with a person. It tends to occupy your life, your thoughts. You can't do anything else for a long time.

Dacia Maraini

Life Time Story Quotes #41775
#5. Unsure how to answer, I took another grape. Time was no problem for me, but I wasn't eager to hear the long life story of a dwarf. And besides, this was a dream. It could evaporate any moment.

Haruki Murakami

Life Time Story Quotes #50832
#6. 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 include the important element of giving meaning to events and experiences over time by connecting them as a developing, continuing story.

Jacqui Stedmon

Life Time Story Quotes #55893
#7. Several died the day the bomb was dropped. Some lived six months after the explosion but died anyway. They were all lost. It was so long ago, young man. To you it is a history story. To me it is my life.

Joseph G. Peterson

Life Time Story Quotes #58275
#8. On some level, every story draws something from life experiences. Most of the time, it's just a matter of me pulling bits and pieces of my own past to help give characters or settings a little more life.

Cullen Bunn

Life Time Story Quotes #60263
#9. Search your own life for the story only you can tell. The best thing about writing from life is that you can be sure of using original material. And no research is needed beyond the time you spend looking deep inside your own heart.

Elizabeth Held Forsyth

Life Time Story Quotes #69961
#10. Is that the moral of it all, he thought? the moral of the whole story: that there is time enough for everything? Is that how morals come, unbidden, in the course of events, when you least expect them?

J.M. Coetzee

Life Time Story Quotes #89028
#11. The story of my life is profoundly unclear. It is a rock-and-roll story and, at the same time, a story of my walk with Christ. The two are melded together in ways both unpredictable and unsure.

Scott Stapp

Life Time Story Quotes #103895
#12. Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of time, an adagio of high notes, low notes an illusive movements. Then when I least expected it, I happened upon the missing notes in the life of Charlotte Howe Taylor.

Sally Armstrong

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#13. It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.

Vanessa Kerry

Life Time Story Quotes #109931
#14. She will prolong her life by the length of her story, even though time will wear on inexorably as she tells it, thus depriving her of the chance to have a new experience.

Elfriede Jelinek

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#15. Time is the cosmic fabric upon which everyone's life story is woven.

Garry Fitchett

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#16. It's time to begin righting the story of your life.

David Jeremiah

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#17. Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.

Ernest Hemingway,

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#18. It was a time of beautiful brutal illusions.

Mick Karabegovic

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#19. As much as they were right for each other, time wasn't right for them.

Parul Wadhwa

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#20. The true story ... is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.

Sarah Dessen

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#21. For the first time in a long time I've met a man that makes my heart want to stay.

Nikki Rowe

Life Time Story Quotes #226999
#22. No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.

Pat Conroy

Life Time Story Quotes #242911
#23. My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.

Harry Mathews

Life Time Story Quotes #282343
#24. that I wasn't going crazy. For a long time I thought that this story should begin with what happened to me at the church, when my life

Dani Atkins

Life Time Story Quotes #286746
#25. Once upon a time there was a person whose life was so good there was no story to tell about it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Life Time Story Quotes #301854
#26. When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

David Tennant

Life Time Story Quotes #307511
#27. The monsters were never
under my bed.
Because the monsters
were inside my head.


I fear no monsters,
for no monsters I see.
Because all this time
the monster has been me.

Nikita Gill

Life Time Story Quotes #341624
#28. There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.

Jill Clayburgh

Life Time Story Quotes #351328
#29. I want to make people smile. I want to tell an epic story ... with laughter. I want to change the way people view the world. I want life to stop being so damn dramatic all the time. I want ... what are you doing?

Cassie Mae

Life Time Story Quotes #359514
#30. Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life Time Story Quotes #383864
#31. The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.

Will Cuppy

Life Time Story Quotes #431537
#32. I want to confess. I thought that her story was comprised of scenes. I thought the tragedy could be glamorous and her grief could be undone by a sunnier future. I thought we could pinpoint dramatic events on a time line and call it a life.
But I was wrong.

Nina LaCour

Life Time Story Quotes #437437
#33. A time like that comes for every man, when he chooses what sort of man he wants to be. And if you don't know the story, you don't know the man.

Fredrik Backman

Life Time Story Quotes #452575
#34. And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

Donald Miller

Life Time Story Quotes #503329
#35. Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await the time of promise, his life-story disintegrates into a myriad of unconnected instants.

Pope Francis

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#36. My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplate my own life. By forcing yourself to write your life story you learn a great deal about yourself.

Grant Achatz

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#37. It was time to take action, to change her own story, to take life into her own hands.

Lisa Berne

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#38. Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

Marcus Aurelius

Life Time Story Quotes #585017
#39. Now, for the first time ever, a story had escaped his control. It had taken on a life of its own, and all the imagination in the world would be insufficient to halt it. He felt numb.

Michael Ende

Life Time Story Quotes #623971
#40. So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It's time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.

Dan B. Allender

Life Time Story Quotes #642150
#41. I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything.

Shane Carruth

Life Time Story Quotes #646360
#42. In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.

Dalai Lama

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#43. You can't take love for granted! You need to be patient. And just as flowers take time to blossom, love will one day blossom in your heart!

Avijeet Das

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#44. Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.

Gina Barreca

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#45. They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.

Daniel Wallace

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#46. [Chris] gave his life in exchange for knowledge and his story is his contribution to the world. I feel complete now to put this story behind me as it was on my mind for quite some time.

Krakauer Jon

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#47. in the end she had not wanted a life spent treading water in his story. She still did not - and yet she regarded herself in the glass a little ruefully. To have that choice removed by time and age was painful.

Kij Johnson

Life Time Story Quotes #755134
#48. We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does envy have such a fierce bite? Why do we fall silent or get worried just as our story is about to spring out of our control and into its own life? Whose shadow falls across the page?

Bonnie Friedman

Life Time Story Quotes #767754
#49. This is why, if you want to get to know someone, you need to know their story. Their life is a story. It, too, has a past and a future. It, too, unfolds in a series of scenes over the course of time.

John Eldredge

Life Time Story Quotes #806033
#50. A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories.

Amy Poehler

Life Time Story Quotes #819320
#51. Much of our life is guided by the beliefs we develop over the course of time; the story we create about what life's about, how we're supposed to be, what we're supposed to do or give.

Anthony Robbins

Life Time Story Quotes #830374
#52. no monster here,
only the shape of a falling star
where your heart should be.
northbound & reaching, a
hero telling her story. it starts
like this: once upon a time,
you rode the dragon
& saved your own life.

Natalie Wee

Life Time Story Quotes #831237
#53. The time spent rereading one book is one less new story I'll be exposed to in my life.

Michelle Madow

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#54. Gerthe also talked about travel. She talked about living in Jamaica. She joked about her husband and her haircut, because she is more than the earthquake. A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story.

Amy Poehler

Life Time Story Quotes #841531
#55. Oh no. I'm not gonna let you leave yet. I'm gonna show you the value of takin' your time to get to work. I probably should have done this a long time ago.

Zack Love

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#56. Every time you overcome a difficult challenge you will have a story and that story is what changes lives.

Farshad Asl

Life Time Story Quotes #849978
#57. You don't wait for love to happen to you. You go out there and feel the breeze and sniff the air! The fragrance of love will come wafting towards you in no time!

Avijeet Das

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#58. Life to me is a beautiful gift from from AdoShem that should not be wasted but shared with others. Including amazing revelations that are meant to be seen and meant to be told for such a time as this!

Sipporah Joseph

Life Time Story Quotes #874354
#59. I want to feel like I'm making a difference in this world. And I want some time for living rather than just working. Life is for living, isn't it? It can't be all just for working

Zack Love

Life Time Story Quotes #877325
#60. Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Life Time Story Quotes #879484
#61. The time to love is now. When we love, we enter into the mystery of eternity. Nothing offered in love is ever lost, for this mortal life is not the whole story. This life is to the next a kind of school, a kind of preparation for the me you were meant to be. That person will go into eternity.

John Ortberg

Life Time Story Quotes #885798
#62. Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

Robert McKee

Life Time Story Quotes #894347
#63.
'There is no completeness; nothing endures, nothing lives; there is only change, unreasoning unreasonable; only birth and death repeating the same story each time, yet different; why?' The voice laughed
'Why you know already; look in your hands.

Vikram Chandra

Life Time Story Quotes #908031
#64. Life is defined by time and seasons.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life Time Story Quotes #918960
#65. The minute grains of sand slipped silently down the curved hourglass, no matter how many times the people of Earth willed them not to. Time, fate and the actions of others were out of their control.

S.R. Crawford

Life Time Story Quotes #919190
#66. He didn't know what he felt. For the first time in his life, his thoughts were a jumble, tossing and turning and writing over each other like an endlessly edited story.

Julia Quinn

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#67. I'm sure, the highest capacity of storage device, will not enough to record all our stories; because, everytime with you is very valuable data

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#68. It was the first time I worked with Matthew McConaughey [in the True Detective].They're fun guys [with Woody Harrelson]. They don't take life at all too seriously, but yet they take their work very seriously. And both of them are just so committed to character and the story.

Michelle Monaghan

Life Time Story Quotes #987054
#69. When I left the Senate in 1979, there were several publishers who had approached me about writing an autobiography, and I knew that politicians write books for many reasons, but at that time, I just thought I wasn't ready and my story wasn't over, and I knew I had a new life ahead of me.

Edward Brooke

Life Time Story Quotes #1008314
#70. Time his depressingly miserable life story - how

John Green

Life Time Story Quotes #1013190
#71. And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

Maximilian Schell

Life Time Story Quotes #1035482
#72. It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.

Kara Swisher

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#73. Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life Time Story Quotes #1085209
#74. As David Zucker watched the casket of his late wife being lowered into the ground, he thought the worst must surely be over and it was time to start the slow healing process to begin life anew.

Phil Wohl

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#75. While 'Once upon a time' may be a great way to start a story, 'Here in the moment' is the best way to live one.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#76. I always saw two sides of life. I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but would also be dedicated fathers. It was kind of weird to see that dual story that everybody has.

Lupe Fiasco

Life Time Story Quotes #1122462
#77. Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.

Thomas Merton

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#78. All of us have a story like that one - some of us more than one. It's part of life and learning. Why, if babies stopped trying to walk the first time they fell down, the whole world would be full of people who crawled.

Debbie Viguie

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#79. The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up.

Jack Dee

Life Time Story Quotes #1143009
#80. I'm just looking at whatever moment I'm at, trying to tell a story that at that time feels like it needs to be told, like I want to see it and how I'm feeling in my life.

Daryl Wein

Life Time Story Quotes #1155884
#81. Oh, shiiiiiiit!"
"Is that really your name?" Pritkin demanded as we crawled up onto the shore some time later.
"Oh, shit?"
"It's more the story ofy life," I said miserably.
And then I passed out.

Karen Chance

Life Time Story Quotes #1160920
#82. And time inherently creates a story. Things begin and they end. How they end is the story. Or maybe it's what happens between when they begin and end that's the story.

Arianna Huffington

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#83. In life, we all have a cross to bear and a unique story to tell. We just hope that someone will take the time to listen.

Greg McVicker

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#84. Not getting girls is the story of my life. I have always had a bit of a tough time with the ladies. I don't know whether it's that I don't have game or just don't feel comfortable in my own skin, but females pick up on that.

Josh Peck

Life Time Story Quotes #1179645
#85. By the time the sun burns itself out or global warming does us in, or something else happens in-between, I had to tell this story from the avenue of the less-known and the lesser seen.

Mahesh Ubhayakar

Life Time Story Quotes #1180903
#86. Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.

Mason Cooley

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#87. In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

Edmund White

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#88. Why do we cry when somebody die, we can't bring him, back we just lose time crying and feeling miserable and after few days we just find that we can't bring him!

(Note: I have Written a story about my dog which died, in the series of The Life Of One KId)

Deyth Banger

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#89. If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a damn, spend some time with 46 years of Lou Reed's work: music that leaped and then looked. Safety is for the godless and the faithless.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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#90. I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays ...

Carmen Laforet

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#91. Behind every person there lies a story which makes them what they are. Many a time, the story isn't known to anybody.

Toffee

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#92. It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.

Edna Ferber

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#93. Nora, I believe life's like a good book. Time makes up the pages that will be your story. Every time your life changes, you start a new chapter. To me, there's nothing more depressing than someone getting to the end of their days and realizing they've only written one long, boring passage.

Elizabeth Isaacs

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#94. Our curse as humans is that we are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as a sequence of events - a story - and when we can't figure out what our particular story is, we feel lost somehow.

Douglas Coupland

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#95. Nuclear episodes stand out in bold print in life story as narrative high points, low points and turning points, explaining how the person has remained the same and how he or she has changed over time.

Dan P. McAdams

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#96. There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and 'live' with the characters.

Margaret Mahy

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#97. I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.

Donna Tartt

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#98. Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas.

Quinn Anderson

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#99. If you didn't cried this time While narrating your story' it proves you are healed now

Nehali Lalwani

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#100. The extraction of deep wisdom can be done at any age, and if we are to love the time of our life, it must be. Imbedded within us is the deeper story we came to live, and the core issue at every age for any awakened human being is the extent to which we are living that story in the present moment.

Carolyn Baker

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