Top 100 Quotes About Our Story
#1. What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.
Palle Oswald
#2. If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals.
Can we tell a new story?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#3. In the end it will not matter how we have told our story, but only how God sees it.
Daniel I. Block
#4. If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.
Brene Brown
#5. I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story.
A.D. Posey
#6. It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.
L.M. Montgomery
#7. I have loved you all my life, Mal," I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story.
Leigh Bardugo
#8. I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I'm a journalist. My life's on the road, my studio is the planet.
Sebastiao Salgado
#9. Our thoughts affect our agreement with reality, our story we tell ourselves. IF you want to change your story, start with your thoughts.
Tony Curl
#10. Maybe I did write our story to be free of it, even if I never can be.
Bernhard Schlink
#11. We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.
David McCullough
#12. We all have our own story. And we stay attached to our story. This can stop us from growing and living. You wanna make your life better? Change your story, change your life.
Tony Robbins
#13. Beautiful memories tell our story, and wrap themselves in ribbons of the heart.
Flavia Cacace
#14. Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story ... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.
Corin Tucker
#15. Our story is over, yes, but our journey isn't, because we'll always live on the edge until the day we die.
J.A. Redmerski
#16. Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.
Shane Koyczan
#17. Anyone who deeply and honestly shares with us the struggles of her heart, her pains and fears, helps to make us more free. This is so because her story is really, in some way, our story. It is everyone's story.
Ronald Rolheiser
#18. I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'
Emmanuel Jal
#19. Our story is the only thing we have that is completely our own. A person who steals it and uses it to entertain is the worst kind of thief. Then
Glennon Doyle Melton
#20. I choose to focus my energy on what I believe deserves my time, life passes us by so quickly and before we know it; were looking back at our story, make sure the choices you decide on; will give you a movie worth watching.
Nikki Rowe
#21. I am getting very old, and I began to wonder if I should ever live to see your chapters of our story.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#22. When you think about justifiable anger in one's personal life, we look at those scenarios in everyday life and through our story with a superhero, we heighten them.
Charlie Cox
#23. Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.
George Saunders
#24. I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.
Brene Brown
#25. The years of us. Our farm and our people. The children, from this distance now almost all completely interchangeable faces and forms, smiling and running and growing so easily into this other thing. So unfettered by time. So shaped by our story, yet somehow so completely untouched by any of it.
Andrew Miller
#26. I have loved you all my life, Mal. There is no end to our story.
Leigh Bardugo
#27. Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that have been scattered, hidden, suppressed, denied, distorted, forbidden, and we come to understand that stories heal.
Deena Metzger
#28. Remember, the things with which we choose to surround ourselves tell our story. Let's hope it's not "I choose to live in the past," or "I can't finish the projects I start." Instead, let's aim for something like, "I live lightly and gracefully, with only the objects I find functional or beautiful.
Francine Jay
#29. The cure for competing narratives is nothing more or less than the Apostles' Creed. Yes, I'll say that again: the creed is our story, succinctly stated.
Sarah Arthur
#30. Write about us," Robinson urged. "Tell our story." And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands.
James Patterson
#31. This is a love story. Twisted and messy. Flawed and screwed up. But it's ours. It's us. I don't know how our story will end. but I know it will start. I pick up my pen and begin to write:
My name is not Mara Dyer, but my lawyer told me I had to choose something.
Michelle Hodkin
#32. And our story is about to end, even though it never really began.
Jessamine Verzosa
#33. Each generation searches their memories for time lost, feels the urgent exigencies of the present, and worries about the uncertainty of the future. Akin to preceding generations, how we live, the choices we make for surviving and loving, is our story.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#34. It might be the end of this chapter. But, for us, our story is only just beginning.
Zoe Sugg
#35. If the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story." - Magnetic Reverie
Nico J. Genes
#36. Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
Plato
#37. We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if the listener likes us. Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
Tennessee Williams
#38. One of the things we've always tried to do is help others with our story. Whether it's with the infertility issues, whether it's with the breast cancer, we said we're gonna turn these negatives into positives. And if we can help others by sharing our story, then it's worth it.
Bill Rancic
#40. When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth
it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.
Miguel Ruiz
#41. Those lyrics tell the story Dahlia, our story. I wrote that song five years ago and even now when I sing it, your face is the face I see. You're unforgettable Dahlia. You're perfect, really.
Kim Karr
#42. You wouldn't believe what people will believe once they know our story. They're ready for anything, basically - will believe anything, because they've been thrown off-balance, are still wondering if any of this is true, our story in general, but aren't sure and are terrified of offending us.
Dave Eggers
#43. When you have a grasp on eternity your eyes won't ever see the battle or the lost people that hurt you. You will see a beautiful story of hope, in every character. It is not one person god loves. He loves us all and this is his story, our story and theirs.
Shannon L. Alder
#44. No one has ever been angry at
another human being-we're only angry at
our story of them.
Byron Katie
#45. The first thing we notice about our story is that we can't really see the solid outlines of it
it seems bathed in something of its own. It is wrapped in an atmosphere. This is what makes it shine, perhaps, as well as what initially obscures its plain, real shape.
Eudora Welty
#46. When I was a boy, my mother would tell me that one of the best things in life is the knowledge that our story isn't over yet. Our story may have come to a close, but your story is still yet to be told.
Make it a story worthy of you
Renee Ahdieh
#47. Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.
Brian Swimme
#48. In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.
John Badham
#49. In the end, we all die. This is not of question. Inarguable. No mystery lay here. The mystery dwells in two questions: How long will our story be, and of what will the pages read?
H.D. Gordon
#50. True love never has to end so why shouldn't our story continue after the last page has been written
Adam Langer
#51. We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.
Kameron Hurley
#52. Do you think, Daniel," she said to him, rolling over onto her back so that she was able to look out of the window while she spoke, "that we might have reached the end of our story?
Maggie O'Farrell
#53. To get to this place of a warrior's courage, we must give up the stories that have ruled our lives and shatter the self-image we created to affirm our story.
Debbie Ford
#54. The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book.
(Introductory lecture as professor of Latin at University College, London, 3 October 1892)
A.E. Housman
#55. An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.
Jack Kornfield
#56. I once told Ren our story wasn't over.
And it's not.
Not yet.
Colleen Houck
#57. What a waste it would be, I said to myself, to ruin our story by leaving too much space for ill feelings: ill feelings are inevitable, but the essential thing is to keep them in check.
Elena Ferrante
#58. Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot
in this case, my brother, Shaun
deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.
Mira Grant
#59. This is our story. It will not be an easy one to read. It was not an easy one for us to live, either.
Jason Crawford
#60. Still, truth is how I remember it now. In a way, I am changing the past from my desk here in the future as I write. It always happens like this. This is how we all tell our story.
J.D. Radke
#61. Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we'll ever do.
Brene Brown
#62. My intent, here, is to tell our story in a dramatically truthful way. While the facts may be less than accurate, please understand that the emotion is true. The intent is true. And, dramatically speaking, intention is everything.
Garth Stein
#63. And we need to share our story. Not with everyone but with someone. There is someone who is like you were. And he or she needs to know what God can do. Your honest portrayal of your past may be the courage for another's future.
Max Lucado
#64. So much of a novelist's writing ... takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.
Graham Greene
#65. I know a lot of us feel like that. We come to a place where we're walking through the fires and trials of life, and we don't know where to turn. What we need is a fresh start. We need our story to go in a new direction. What we need is a comeback of our own.
Louie Giglio
#67. 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
#68. I may not live to see our glory
But I will gladly join the fight
And when our children tell our story
They'll tell the story of tonight
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#69. Once upon a time, we were cynics facing the world alone. Our story changed into two warrior cynics facing the world together.
Now, we own the happily ever after and we refuse to let that bitch go.
Monica Murphy
#70. When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and all I know is that in spite of her mistakes and her unreliability, she was better than most. It's just as well that one of us should believe in her: she never did in herself.
Graham Greene
#71. Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.
Brene Brown
#72. Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures and catastrophes than a series of political events.
Elizabeth Montagu
#73. Adopted children are self-invented because we have to be; there is an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning of our lives. A crucial part of our story is gone, and violently, like a bomb in the womb
Jeanette Winterson
#74. Our moments become our story and our story is shared.
Bella Jewel
#75. Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.
Mick Fleetwood
#76. Our story, Maryland's story, is the story of better choices and better results.
Martin O'Malley
#77. I've seen our story. I've lived it, and I know how it ends.
Stacey Lynn
#78. Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.
Dan B. Allender
#79. Our story has been told,
our song has been sung.
You're a road I've already traveled,
and from it, I have moved on.
Already Traveled
Shay Leigh
#80. Give a name to suffering, perhaps the most immediate reminder of our insignificance and powerlessness, and suddenly it bears the trace of the human. It becomes part of our story. It is redeemed.
Gary Greenberg
#81. It's not the time we spend but how we spend the time that truly tells our story.
Tonya Hurley
#82. Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, It's my own business.
Madeleine L'Engle
#83. The afternoon our story begins, the quiet parts of being alive were the busiest: wind unlocking Windows; rainlight nudging curtains apart; fresh-cut grass tickling unsocked feet. Days like this made Alice want to set off on a great adventure.
Tahereh Mafi
#84. With different changes but the same plot, sometimes our story has already unfolded. It's just trapped in the pages of ink and paper. God is waiting in His Word.
Eric Samuel Timm
#85. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the nonprofit world, the right picture is worth tens of thousands of dollars. I use PhotoPad to sync our Samasource Flickr account to my iPad and slip it out of my purse at cocktail parties to tell our story.
Leila Janah
#86. We are each in the middle of our own path. We do not know what will be at the end of our story.
Susan W. Tanner
#87. The center of our story is the tension between the yearning to create a home and the urge to get out of it. I
Gail Collins
#88. Maybe the only way our story can end is varying degrees of sad.
Courtney Summers
#90. Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.
Timothy Radcliffe
#91. As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.
Dan Jones
#92. I couldn't suppress a smile. It was inconceivable that I was here, in a place as extraordinary as the fantasy books Sophie loved. Maybe...just maybe those stories are based on a measure of truth. Maybe one day I'd write our story.
Heather L. L. FitzGerald
#93. I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.
Mariel Hemingway
#94. So as our story begins everything is going pretty good
the giants are leaving everyone alone for a minute
and everything is pretty okay
so obviously Odin has to go and fuck it all up by making a shitty deal with a giant.
Cory O'Brien
#95. We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.
Marco Rubio
#96. Listen carnales listen to the hymn of it, the lie of it, the prayer of it, the voices singing our names: listen it's our story, it's our song,
Luis Alberto Urrea
#97. Fine," I said. "So our girl, the hero of our story - " "Heroine," he said. "No, I haven't got any," I said.
Stephen Kozeniewski
#98. As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes up. Then there's a backlash, and if folks stop pushing, it goes down. Let's face it, it's a lot more complicated.
Stanley Nelson Jr.
#99. Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II, has it been clearer that we have as a source of strength, a source of direction, a source of inspiration - our story.
David McCullough
#100. How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme."
"Bizarre and adorable?"
"Just like you."
"With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes"
"Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells.
Shannon Hale
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