#story

bueno, hay una chica, llevo enamorado de ella desde que tengo uso de razón, pero estoy bastante seguro de que ella no sabia nada de mi hasta la cosecha. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#love-hurts #love-story #love

Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#art #connection #story #art

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. ↗

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

#believed #faith #giants #great #history

Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fantasy. They're about real life. We've all encountered wicked wolves, found fairy godmothers, and faced trial by fire. We've all set off into unknown woods at one point in life or another. We've all had to learn to tell friend from foe and to be kind to crones by the side of the road. . . . ↗

— Terri Windling

#folktales #inspirational #myth #old-tales #power-of-story

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place. ↗

— Robert McKee

#dance #music #painting #story #art

Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward. ↗

— Robert Patterson

#came #coming #did #forward #going

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history. ↗

— Floyd Patterson

#been #champion #down #heavyweight #heavyweight champion

I'm either on the cusp of greatness or the edge of insanity. ↗

— Meb Bryant

#short-story #short-story

Because he tells me. All the fucking time. I’m precious to him and I know it because he shows me and he tells me. It’s beautiful. It’s real. It’s right. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#beauty

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#barbarity #certain #certain point #civilization #collapse