Life Stories Quotes

“After facing the relentless pandemic showdowns, many long for the glow of a new dawn and crave bright life stories with liberating slapsticks to shatter silenced desolation and pent-up rage, restoring self-value and broken identity.”
― Erik Pevernagie, Stilling our Mind

“Our life stories help us integrate our experiences and understand our place in the world. They give coherence and direction to our lives. ( "Everybody his story")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Judaea was not a forgotten backwater in the Roman world. Jews represented about ten percent of the population of the western empire and about twenty percent of the population of the eastern empire. By comparison, Jews represent only about two per cent of the population of the United States today. Never, since the fall of Judah to Babylon in the sixth century BC until the twentieth century had Jews comprised so large a part of any body politic.”
― James Allen Moseley, Biographies of Jesus' Apostles: Ambassadors in Chains

“More people’s lives have been shaped by violence than we like to think. And more people’s lives have been shaped by silence than we think.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

“Jesus’ ministry lasted 1,350 days, spanning five calendar years (AD 29–33), fifty calendar months, and 44.36 months (calculated as being of 30.5 days’ average duration). The gospels have gaps in their narratives in which Jesus disappears from the pages of history. The gaps total 770 days, which is about two years, representing fifty-seven percent of Jesus’ total ministry time. No wonder John wrote “Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book” (John 20:30) and “There are many more things that Jesus did. If all of them were written down, I suppose that not even the world itself would have space for the books that would be written” (John 21:25).”
― James Allen Moseley

“Do you ever think about how many stories are out there?' she asks, placing a finger on the glass. 'How many dramas are unfolding around us right at this very moment? I wonder how long a book you would need to record them. You'd probably need an entire library to hold a single evening in Manhattan. An hour. A minute.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“All apostles were disciples. Not all disciples were apostles. Disciples (Greek: mathetes) were pupils, hence, followers. Apostles (Greek: apostolos) were ambassadors, hence, leaders.”
― James Allen Moseley, Biographies of Jesus' Apostles: Ambassadors in Chains

“And it wasn't fair. That was the thing that was at the heart of my reluctance and my resentment. Some people make it out of their stories unscathed, thriving. Some people don't.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

“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

“Write a story
A story about yourself

A story about your life
Now, believe it

Now write another story, same subject
A better story
More interesting
Stronger characters.
Now, believe that.

Just keep writing
You have plenty of time”
― Eleanor Davis, How to Be Happy

“We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?”
― Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

“There’s an unspoken message that the only stories worth telling are the stories that end up in history books. This is not true. Every story matters. My father’s story matters. We are all worthy of telling our stories and having them heard. We all need to be seen and honored in the same way that we all need to breathe. -- Viola Davis”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness

“Find the stories that help you comprehend the incomprehensible

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

“But if you've got a bagful of stories it means you've led a rich life, and I'm way behind on that count.”
― Jason, Why Are You Doing This?

“Our crowns are just flowers. We are here and then gone in a burst of wind.
But I want things. I want more stories. I want life itself.”
― Kate Bowler

“We are playwrights scripting our personal reality show and enigmatic fantasy world. Without a questing protagonist and a strong antagonist, the plot is tepid. All heroic conduct requires a journey filled with hardship, adventure, and a personal nemesis to conquer.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Your own life story is not read by the world till you add some exceptional things to the life stories of others!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“She loved riding her cycle in the evenings, when the breeze was cool and the humidity was less.

The color of the cycle reminded her of the sky. While riding, she felt as if she were flying. She loved this feeling of flying: as if she were a bird flying in the sky.

Life is so beautiful, she realized. But she could not understand why people fought wars. Why people hated one another?

The birds did not hate each other; they just loved flying under the wide blue sky and above the vast green grass.

She often wondered about life and the answers to life's questions. But her mind could never find answers to her questions.”
― Avijeet Das

“As a writer and a poet, I like listening rather than talking. Invariably I like to listen to the life stories and instances of many people whom I meet in life. And the people I meet shape the characters and the stories that I write.”
― Avijeet Das

“It was extremely challenging to spend months in a refugee house (in a room of 15 m) with complete strangers; families that I didn’t know. My happy world fell apart. Everything and everyone I knew was gone. My childhood was over, and I had to grow up fast in a country, where I felt unwelcomed and rejected from minute one.”
― Lily Amis, The Stolen Years In Zurich

“When the government tells you to your face, after a decade, to either marry or leave the country, and you marry the wrong guy for the wrong reasons, your whole future is screwed.”
― Lily Amis, The Stolen Years In Zurich

“I have never experienced true love, a caring and supportive partner or at least a career. All I’m left with are my books and my song lyrics!”
― Lily Amis

“And sometimes...

Life's subtle nuances too paint the vibrant masterpiece.
Of the existence.
Every shade, a story. Every detail, a character.

The intricate painting of being.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“Zindagi ke kisse, chand lamhon mein rachay,
Aate hain log, rang bharne, phir chale jaate hain saath chhod ke.

Mulaqatein adhuri si, baatein teri yaadon mein khoyi,
Tanha safar, kyun lagta hai, kahani mein hai kuch khaas baat.

Tooti doriyan, rishton ke silsile mein chhupi hain,
Har musafir le kar aata hai, ek anokhi kahani, phir raahein hi bhatak jaati hain.”
― Huzefa Nalkheda wala

“Envy is the art of comparing your behind-the-scenes with someone else's highlight reel, forgetting that each life unfolds its own unique story.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“Walls are more than stone and mortar. They are silent sentinels, their eyes following every movement, their mouths sealed yet harboring countless reminiscences.

They're silent storytellers. They witness hushed secrets and grand pronouncements, absorbing the laughter and tears that reverberate within their confines.

Their textures saying under its breath, of the lives lived within. The worn wallpaper narrating chronicles. The chipped paint flecks capture fleeting moments, and the floor creak with impressions unseen.

The silence of walls holds the weight of history.
A chronicle of lives lived within their embrace.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“All across the mission, dozens of horror stories were being written.
I just had to deal with mine.”
― Jason Fox, Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows

“This is the moment Emlyn will play over and over in her mind. The moment where her life swivels from its course and heads in an entirely different direction. Life is full of these moments. Little points like those connect-the-dots activities from grade school. Each speck building on the next to form the shape of a person's story.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

“My task is to help you stay in the complexity of the reality, and the reality of the complexities – because it is complex, isn’t it, Jason?”
― Jason Fox

“He would understand, later, that there is a moment when your life must become your own; you must claim it from all the other stories you’ve been given, that have been handed down or thrust upon you, or that you’ve been left holding while someone else claimed theirs.”
― Anne Michaels