#tellin

When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the clouds have begun their slow, fat rolling journey across the sky, no land in the world can inspire such love in a common man. ↗

— Frank Delaney

#storytelling #travel #inspirational

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls... ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#story #storytelling #men

Though a story may begin as a lie, perhaps it can be made true. Perhapsd their ultimate power is found in how they inspire us to action. ↗

— Matthew J. Kirby

#inspirational

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#argumentation #avoidance #challenge #challenger #contempt

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#present #story #storytelling #change

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear. ↗

— St. Catherine of Siena

#fear #freedom-of-speech #truth #truth-telling #freedom

Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#go #leave #off #presidents #telling

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety. ↗

— Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

#anxious #being #come #death #duty

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling. ↗

— Chester Brown

#came #got #i #idea #improvisational

Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#become #everybody #hands #now #put