Shared Stories Quotes

#1. People like to say how much they like stuff, but with 'The Sunset Tree,' people shared stories about what it meant for them. And that stuff's so humbling and amazing.

John Darnielle

#2. We forget that the sweetest joys are found in the simplest acts: hugs, laughter, quiet observation, basic movements, holding hands, pleasant music, shared stories, a listening ear, an unhurried visit, and selfless service. It is sad we forget a truth so elementary.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#3. I feel weird spilling it now but have to. Because after a while, it took root, the way shared stories do when you live with them long enough. They affect your DNA like radiation. They give birth to you.

Kelly J. Cogswell

#4. Short stories are great start, but if they are true that's the best start so far in about 222 short stories I have viewed and I have already shared them in the book series Reddit Collection.

Deyth Banger

#5. Not only had my brother disappeared, but
and bear with me here
a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared.

John Corey Whaley

#6. The stories, when they were shared, inevitably ended with, I mean, can you believe it? We often could not, but they always proved true.

John Green

#7. Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared.

S. Kelley Harrell

#8. 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

#9. The bigger story here is that the fabric of the Net has changed; it's a place for people to connect up around shared interests and then collaborate towards some sort of action.

Steve Rubel

#10. It was a very emotional dinner ... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.

Lil' Kim

#11. Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.

Geddy Lee

#12. I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

Oprah Winfrey

#13. Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.

John Slattery

#14. The poems and stories we shared with each other could mean what we wanted them to mean. We could choose our own path together.

Ally Condie

#15. With a shock, the trooper who had arrived to render aid to his fallen comrade recognized the one whose life was now bleeding out inside his armor. They had trained together. Shared meals, stories, experiences together. Now they were sharing death together.

Alan Dean Foster

#16. It was something else entirely to sit in a circle and hear their stories firsthand, to listen to strangers spill their guts as they shared how close they had come to losing it all. I knew that would make it all so very, very real.

A Meredith Walters

#17. I've noticed that great political leaders are energized by conflict. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions. That's the work of an organizer.

Gloria Steinem

#18. And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we'd meet there again.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#19. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions.

Gloria Steinem

#20. I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#21. I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

Emma Thompson

#22. The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power of a unified, talented, prepared team that stays loyally committed to one another and to their shared vision to the end.

Stephen Covey

#23. Chance could share shit like that with his brother. Chance shared everything with his brother. To him, Quinn was some sort of superhero who occasionally got knee-walking drunk, told great stories, could crack a joke, and pissed him off from time to time.

Alex Morgan

#24. Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.

Emily Giffin

#25. One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

Marco Tempest

#26. Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

Dan Millman

#27. I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

Erin Morgenstern

#28. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

Gloria Steinem

#29. Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

Barack Obama

#30. I think that for humans, the most regrettable of omissions, along with unshed tears and unexamined lives, is untold stories, the things not shared, the lost opportunity to be honest about oneself and tender toward others.

Martha M. Moravec

#31. Before the 21st century, stories became popular because people talked about them in other publications or shared magazine and newspaper clippings with friends.

Annalee Newitz

#32. To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

Barack Obama

#33. Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared with others, these emotions can be powerfully uniting, as we see that we are not alone, and realize that others weep with us.

Susan Wittig Albert

#34. Even the adults were charming, traditional Barue, who readily shared kitchen stories with him over mugs of Swigny.

Suresh Guptara

#35. Comics know that time plus pain equals humor and that we can redeem even awful moments from the past by translating them into a shared experience.

Gina Barreca

#36. What's compelling about the story and what's very honest about the story is that it's very real and it's happening. There are 200,000 women in active duty, and over 40% of them are moms. This experience is shared by thousands of women, and no one is right or wrong.

Michelle Monaghan

#37. Because when you tell your stories, you start to recognize yourself in the stories of others. You start to discover that you are both, in fact, inside a shared story.

Lisa-Jo Baker

#38. Our stories must be written, shared and communicated.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. In sexual relations, a connection between solar plexus chakras indicates shared power in the relationship.

Brownell Landrum