#tories

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#experience

Just think of what would have happened to poor old Naaman if he had decided to dunk himself only once? ↗

— Lawana Blackwell

#faith #humor-inspirational #seven #faith

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#stories #family

لماذا يخاف بعض الناس مواجهة اصدقائهم بحقائق الامور عندما تتكشف ، فيمنعون في ضلالهم غير آبهين إلى أن الحياة لا يمكن لها أن تظل وتبقى أواصرها أن لم يَصدق الصديق صديقه ؟ ↗

— غالب حمزة أبو الفرج

#friendship #people #stories #friendship

Without a best friend to tell stories to, it almost didn't matter if they even happened. ↗

— Leila Howland

#friendship #life #stories #friendship

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones. ↗

— David Brin

#anyone #author #buy #fictive #neither

Literature is the real life of imaginary people. ↗

— Stefanos Livos

#fiction #imagination #literature #stories #imagination

...But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#lies #stories #the-truth #imagination

There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies. ↗

— Alan Moore

#death

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper... ↗

— Criss Jami

#building-up #compression #creativity #deaf #development