#story

I believe in all human societies there is a desire to love and be loved, to experience the full fierceness of human emotion, and to make a measure of the sacred part of one's life. Wherever I've traveled--Kenya, Chile, Australia, Japan--I've found the most dependable way to preserve these possibilities is to be reminded of them in stories. Stories do not give instruction, they do not explain how to love a companion or how to find God. They offer, instead, patterns of sound and association, of event and image. Suspended as listeners and readers in these patterns,we might reimagine our lives. It is through story that we embrace the great breadth of memory, that we can distinguish what is true, and that we may glimpse, at least occasionally, how to live without despair in the midst of the horror that dogs and unhinges us. ↗

— Barry Lopez

#storytelling #experience

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#hate #i #people #story #struggling

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story. ↗

— John Goodman

#her #knew #main #main thing #rose

Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#attacks #dog #expect #him #hit

The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#experiences #god #i #make #me

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists. ↗

— Harriet Van Horne

#broadcasting #few #flick #history #much

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#develop #early #early stages #get #i

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#battle #brutal #brutality #convey #how

He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon realizing they have done this, recants and searches themselves for further enlightenment. ↗

— Cristina Marrero

#certainty #cristina-marrero #faith #knowledge #spirituality

But I can no longer ready any faith's Napoleonic saber rattling without picturing smoking rubble on cable news. I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#christianity #history #politics #religion #faith