Stories Of Life Quotes

“Some looks are heavier than the thickest books because they carry the saddest stories of life!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“It's good to be reminded that the world is full of stories that are, potentially, at least as painful as yours.”
― Stephanie Butland, Lost For Words

“Memorable stories of every culture tell us what principles the citizenry saved their smiles for and shed their sorrowful tears lamenting.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“An author has many a thousand stories to tell, an artist tells the stories in a thousand ways.”
― David Benedict Zumbo

“Without language we have no past, the present is unquantifiable, and we lack a means to recognize and express the paradoxical future challenges of humanity. In absence of a shared language, we cannot understand prior generation’s conflicts, desires, and achievements, nor can we communicate with future generations our essential values and the wisdom we garner through undergoing our own socioeconomic crises”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Humankind’s perpetual affinity for telling stories that depict the weal of life shapes and reflects human consciousness. Stories are the most ancient form of art. All societies, from the tribes scratching the earliest cave drawings, employed the art of storytelling. We hunger to hear other people’s stories and to tell our own stories to an appreciative audience.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The cracked wall &
The locked door
Have so many hidden stories to tell.
The broken crayons and
The old wardrobes are still mesmerizing.”
― Jyoti Patel, The Forest of Feelings

“Find the stories that help you comprehend the incomprehensible

Find the stories that make you stronger.”
― Eleanor Davis, How To Be Happy

“Ouch: Buddhism teaches: Humans suffer from the stories we tell ourselves. Those stories can engage us, comfort us, frighten us, motivate us, and keep us from change. They are worth unpacking and paying attention to.”
― Helen S. Rosenau, The Messy Joys of Being Human: A Guide to Risking Change and Becoming Happier

“We use the tools of memory and imagination to construct and depict stories; they make up the double-sided face of the same mental coin. Memory houses many images. The ability mentally to depict and store images depends upon the power of association prompted by the rational and imaginative thoughts of the mind. Recollection of past thoughts is dependent upon the quality of our memory system. The Ancient Greeks taught us, memory is the mother of our personal muse.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“All stories are incomplete renderings of our psyche and are an inadequate expression of reality. Reality is not objective as most people mistakenly assume. Our perception of reality, based upon our ability of discernment, will never attain perfect judgment. How we take in our observation of a rose or water lily is based upon attention, perception, and training. We might not notice what other people readily perceive, or we might not comprehend what we actually observe in the same fashion or with the same acute degree of perception that other people catalog experience.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Good stories are thematic and thought provoking. Every story has a meaning to the teller; sometimes the actual meaning of the story is latent. Is storytelling evidence of how we go about taking measure of our action-filled lives? Do stories tell how we hunker down in a foxhole in an all-out effort to survive? Does storytelling also pay homage to how the mind is predisposed to roam about in a cloudbank while we are belly crawling on the battlefield of time? Does the sprawl of our stories delve into what cinematic themes we find worthy of living for and risk death chasing? What does the synecdoche of our stories tell us about people and how does this knowledge assist us fit into this diverse world as individuals? Do self-selected stories guide us in choosing how to go about life? Does the hard kernel of our personal story allow us to reconcile how we actually live with how other well-meaning people coached us to live? Do poignant stories of our generation tell us whether we should aim for a life of leisure, aspire to acquire wealth, pine to take pleasurable junkets, maneuver to climb the ladder of social prestige, altruistically give to charity, or stoically sacrifice personal delight in order to mollify a religious deity? What does the sanctified marrow of cherished stories tell us about life?”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Do provocative stories tell us what it means to be human? Do spine-tingling stories assist us to comprehend what it takes to make our way in an amorphous world littered with anarchy and despair? Is a collection of stories a cognitive effort to draw out conceptual insight and hand down derived wisdom? Is storytelling a therapeutic modality? Does the structural mechanics of folktales, short stories, and novels serve as a storehouse of useful information, or does their precision gadgetry provide for an interactive interface to wring more awareness out of human experience? How does the amorous meandering of a conscientious voice wending its way through beloved stories help us perform our own romantic shape making? Can reading and writing along with telling our personal stories with lyrical realism actually burn new neural routes through the brain? Can merely sharing bands of thought waves connect the reader to the writer, and connect the speaker to the listener?”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“कुछ कहानियों के पूरे न होने में कुछ बात होती है”
― Kamlesh Mishra

“The stories of people who came before us seeking slabs of truth forges an integral part of our personal survival plan.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We all have stories. Some of us write, some of us just feel.”
― Garima Soni - words world

“The best stories are far too good to be told, they remain in the minds of men and women as memories.”
― Tim Storrs, Ripped Pages the unedited Writing of Tim Storrs

“We said it really wasn’t very late, that we were listening to him with growing interest. The bottle of bourbon was empty. I brought another, along with more ice, and we asked the Gaviero to continue his story. On summer nights in California, time stretches like an elastic, compliant material, perfect for hearing the confidences of someone who had a store of tales that could lead us from one marvel to another until dawn.”
― Álvaro Mutis, The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll

“The greatest stories aren’t always written. They’re plucked from the everyday lives of ordinary people.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected

“I invite you to come along as I tell stories of the guides who show me the way, or rather, the multiplicity of ways, to live a centered, abundant life of prayer and action, insights and habits.”
― Karen Wright Marsh, Wake Up to Wonder: 22 Invitations to Amazement in the Everyday

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…”
― Isaac Asimov

“Kaida's attorney suggested a quit claim deed as the best vehicle for transferring Gail’s home into Kaida's name with a limiting clause for a life estate for Gail. The single page was drafted on his computer.
When Gail asked Kaida why her beneficiary deed and her will were not sufficient, Kaida told her the new “trust” was more complete. It ensured that Grant and Paige would finally inherit her property at the end of Kaida’s life. It would also substantially help her build Kaida’s credit back from the bankruptcy to have her name on the deed.
Gail certainly loved Kaida and her grandchildren. Gail trusted Kaida’s promise to care for her in her old age, and she believed their funds had become hopelessly co-mingled, so that sitting in the attorney’s office that day, she finally agreed to sign the trust document with a “joint tenancy life estate” on her property. It felt like a business transaction. It was only right to incentivize Kaida for her promise to care for her in her old age.”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch