Top 100 Our Stories Quotes
#1. Love is who we are without our stories.
Byron Katie
#3. Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
Barbara Kingsolver
#4. I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
Nikki Giovanni
#5. We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight as we spin and lurch across our lives. There are moments of great joy and magic. The most astounding things can lie waiting as each day dawns, as each page turns.
David Almond
#6. Our feelings matter. Our stories matter. Our friends matter. But ultimately we must search the Scriptures to see what matters most.
Kevin DeYoung
#7. 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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#8. If we want freedom from perfectionism, we have to make the long journey from "What will people think?" to "I am enough." That journey begins with shame resilience, self-compassion, and owning our stories.
Brene Brown
#9. I feel that our stories are cross culturally irrelevant, and I'm a member if a larger community of people who have no boundaries in terms of color or in terms of how I look at other people and their stories.
Giancarlo Esposito
#10. I believe that we don't choose our stories," she began, leaning forward. "Our stories choose us." She paused and took a sip of water. Her hand, I noticed was steady.. "And if we don't tell them, then we are somehow diminished.
Dani Shapiro
#11. Our stories are so fundamental to us that it's easy to forget that we choose them.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#12. But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
Wally Lamb
#13. I've learned that life isn't about the end, but about the chapters in between. The filling in that we do to get our stories told and how people react to it is what keeps us going.
Claire Contreras
#14. Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we don't realize they are in the past. They can't hurt us anymore.
Geneen Roth
#15. We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does it not?
Susan Fletcher
#16. Our stories become self-fulfilling; we will always live up to the story. So make it a desired one
Malti Bhojwani
#17. If there is no art, no culture, then what the fuck are we going to talk about? These are our stories and our stories are all we got!
Dave Hickey
#18. Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.
LZ Granderson
#19. [Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's stories
entering into their feelings, validating their experiences
is the highest way of acknowledging their humanity, the sweetest form of usefulness.
William Deresiewicz
#20. Whether through TV, film, online, app, or web, we will find ways to tell our stories with authenticity, and engage with our viewers beyond traditional means.
Sam Branson
#21. As hard as we have worked and as far as we have come, there are still so many forces conspiring to tell women that our concerns are petty, our opinions aren't needed, that we lack the gravitas necessary for our stories to matter.
Lena Dunham
#22. Just like any woman, ... we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.
Francesca Lia Block
#23. Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.
Al Goldstein
#24. The most difficult part of our stories is often what we bring to them - what we make up about who we are and how we are perceived by others. Yes, maybe we lost our job or screwed up a project, but what makes that story so painful is what we tell ourselves about our own self-worth and value.
Brene Brown
#25. Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn't easy for me to accept this simple truth, because there was a time when our stories were the same, but that was six years and two lifetimes ago.
Nicholas Sparks
#27. When we own our stories, we avoid being trapped as characters in stories someone else is telling.
Brene Brown
#28. Sharing our stories is a vital part of doing life together. The disciples shared their stories and changed the world, not because they were extraordinary men, but because they told about an extraordinary God.
Cindee Snider Re
#29. Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes our lives less miserable so that we might be more kind - well, then, let's have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories. We are a sorry tribe of beasts. We need all the help we can get.
Gregory Maguire
#30. Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them.
Michael Eklund
#31. I always wanted to experience what performance would be like without the fourth wall, so I formed a company in Australia, and we did avant-garde theater, playing with gender norms, conversations about race - we just had a box of issues that we wanted to subvert with our stories, with dance.
DeObia Oparei
#32. Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.
Colum McCann
#33. So much of falling in love is a biographical project, we turn our stories over and hope for the best. Should you inspire the full-dress treatment, you will find yourself loved but also much altered.
Michelle Orange
#34. Our stories are what we are. Our stories preserve us. We give them to one another. Our stories have value
Julianna Baggott
#35. What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in.
David S.Goyer
#36. Stories matter. We are composed of our stories. The human heart is made of the words we put in it. If someone ever says mean things to you, don't let those words go into your heart, and be careful not to put mean words in other people's hearts.
Susan Abulhawa
#37. She had been searching for a way to justify her own choices. It was the first time I realized that we all bend and shape our stories to fit our own ends. It was certainly no the last.
Greer Macallister
#38. When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.
Brene Brown
#39. I wonder if all hearts are made with the same pockets for fear and pain and sadness. They must not be, or if they are, maybe we all don't know how to use them. Because otherwise so many of our stories would have ended differently.
Courtney Summers
#40. Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
Salman Rushdie
#41. Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.
M.J. Rose
#42. Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough ... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.
James Carroll
#43. All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?
Douglas Kennedy
#44. I'd once heard that we are nothing but our stories. Forget the blood and bones and genes and cells. They're not what we are. We are, rather, our stories. We are an accumulation of experiences that we have fashioned into our own grand, sweeping narrative.
Ken Ilgunas
#45. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representational or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#46. Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other ... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.
Mark Nepo
#47. I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.
Donald Miller
#48. The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.
John Dufresne
#50. Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.
Mary E. DeMuth
#51. When we deny our stories and disengage from tough emotions, they don't go away; instead, they own us, they define us.
Brene Brown
#52. When we tell our stories, the gods hear our sorrows.
Cathy Ostlere
#53. Home is not only the place you start from, but the place you come back to...where dreams are sustained, hurts healed, where our stories are told.
Robert M. Hamma
#54. Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be
and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness.
Luanne Rice
#55. Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.
Karen Armstrong
#56. At one point, I animated villains in our stories, a bear or a giant, then on The Little Mermaid Ariel just called to me and I started to fall in love with characters who had that burning desire inside of them, this hope.
Glen Keane
#57. We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
#58. We writers can use our own longing - and frequently do - without ever having to understand or analyze it. That is why our stories are often wiser than we are.
Marion Dane Bauer
#59. Only your children's grandchildren may remember our stories, but the stories are not what makes a life. It's living with a smile and a free spirit that will ripple throughout the stars.
T.S. Wieland
#60. Traces that live within us often lead us to our stories
Dani Shapiro
#61. Our stories are not new; yet, in the retelling we are reborn as heroes.
Harley King
#62. Stories are like genies ... They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like genies, everyone has one. Like genies, sometimes we forget that we do.
Our stories can set us free ... When we set them free.
Francesca Lia Block
#63. Then I went to bed and cried into my pillow. I wasn't sad, not at all. It was just so beautiful to have an intense feeling and the right words at the same time.
What are we but our stories?
James Patterson
#64. In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives.
Sam Keen
#65. I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.
Natalie Goldberg
#66. Death steals everything except our stories.
Jim Harrison
#67. The journey as a writer is not so much about our stories, but the stories of others we meet along the way on our wonderful path. #grateful
Lee Bice-Matheson
#68. ...our stories are who we are, where we begin. They connect us, tearing down walls and shattering isolation. For story is where hope begins.
Cindee Snider Re
#69. Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.
Maya Angelou
#70. Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories?
Maureen Dowd
#71. We let ourselves loose on that simple blank piece of paper, and our bodies spill. The terror, the love ... embodying our stories page after page. In a sense, the pen was our tongue, it is how we delineate the world.
Coco J. Ginger
#72. To follow Story is to understand the path of healing. Each of our stories is a universe. Each one of us is living a story. To discover its shape and essence is essential to soul making.
Deena Metzger
#73. We are our stories - dozens, hundreds, thousands of them - sprayed across our memories, embedded in our identity. Calling them up for others or for ourselves or for God, can enlighten, crush, amuse, trap, or free us, depending on how we pay attention.
Emma Lou Warner Thayne
#74. Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.
Christina Baldwin
#75. When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
Eugene H. Peterson
#76. Their story, yours, mine - it's what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to each other to respect our stories and learn from them.
William Carlos Williams
#77. I want more movies like 'Straight Outta Compton.' Showing our stories of triumph, we'll make it through, and we'll get to something better.
O'Shea Jackson Jr.
#78. To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.
Joyce Maynard
#80. Our stories are our best gifts--treasure and share them!
Gail Kittleson
#81. In the face of events that threaten to overwhelm our lives, storytelling gives us a way of reclaiming ourselves and reaffirming our connections with other people-those who listen to our stories and, by doing so, bear witness with us.
Victoria Alexander
#82. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories
Ben Okri
#83. In any case, this is how all our stories begin, in darkness with our eyes closed, and all our stories end the same way, too, with all of us uttering some last words - or perhaps someone else's - before slipping back into darkness as our series of unfortunate events comes to an end.
Lemony Snicket
#84. It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.
Anne Bancroft
#85. . . . our stories are what make the difference, and if we can tell them honestly we can hope to help each other. In the end, we have nothing to offer each other but our stories.
Emma Lou Warner Thayne
#86. The Things That Matter convincingly lays out Nate Berkus's philosophy that things do matter. Our homes tell our stories, they reflect the places we've been and the people we've loved along the way - and there can be no more beautiful design for living than that.
Nate Berkus
#87. I consider myself fortunate that I am in the position to decide which is the most effective way to tell our stories.
Garth Kravits
#88. The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol - they begin in parable and end in us. These are not Bible stories that we learn; these are our stories.
Leonard Sweet
#89. The human race has always defined itself through narration. That isn't going to change just because we've gone electronic. What is changing is that now we're allowing corporations to tell our stories for us.
Tom Robbins
#90. Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
Joyce Maynard
#91. Ava whispered, We're all immortal, as long as our stories are told.
Elizabeth Hunter
#92. First, you write for yourself... always, to make sense of experience and the world around you. It's one of the ways I stay sane. Our stories, our books, our films are how we cope with the random trauma-inducing chaos of life as it plays.
Bruce Springsteen
#93. The Beatles' story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug culture emerged, how politics rose to the fore as a universal debate. It's about rebellion, it's about the growth of the British entertainment system, the growth of the rock n' roll entertainment system.
Bob Spitz
#94. Our stories are phantoms of fleeting moments reflected in mirrors.
Dennis Vickers
#95. We're all immortal, Ava, as long as someone tells our stories.
Elizabeth Hunter
#96. I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.
Jerry N. Uelsmann
#97. What spares us is memory," he said. "It's what makes us worth saving. However low we sink, whatever promise we no longer fulfill, we tell our stories. That's why you're so important, Charlie. You're a guardian of our national memory.
Frederick Weisel
#98. So much of me is made of what I learned from you; you'll be with me like a handprint on my heart and now whatever way our stories end I know you have re-written mine by being my friend
Stephen Schwartz
#99. Without our stories we are incomplete.
Neil Gaiman
#100. So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard.
Sarah Polley
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