Browsing Topic Best Stories Quotes

There’s a story behind everything…but behind all your stories is always your mother’s story…because hers is where yours begins.

A good friend knows your best stories. The best friend has lived them with you.

Don’t lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be and that we must risk our hearts every day to know happiness.

I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

We are all captives of a story.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

As you awaken, the present moment becomes your home. You still play in the world of time, but you’re not identified with the story unfolding there.

In a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that ONLY I HAD TO READ. :)

He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story — the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to what I call the vision of God is the story which is told in the Bible.

The secret to being successful is to find a way to bring yourself through, even in your stories. People are looking for the essence of your truth. When you can bring your own truth to it, that’s when it works.

You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

All my jewelry has stories.

Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life’s purpose – the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes. Being attentive to the needs of others might not be the point of life, but it is the work of life. It can be messy, and painful, and almost impossibly difficult. But it is not something we give. It is what we get in exchange for having to die.

You can’t hate someone whose story you know.

Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!

Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It’s reflective of history, often a painful history. It’s central to a culture, to a history, to a personal story. It’s communication at its most fundamental.

Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that’s a very sad thing. It’s film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that’s everywhere around the world.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

It’s probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it.

Don’t lies eventually lead to the truth? And don’t all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don’t they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.