#tories

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. ↗

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. ↗

Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the strange conviction, for example, that everything in life that happens to me also has a sense, that it means something, that life speaks to us about itself through its story, that it gradually reveals a secret, that it takes the form of a rebus whose message must be deciphered, that the stories we live compromise the mythology of our lives and in that mythology lies the key to truth and mystery. Is it an illusion? Possibly, even probably, but I can’t rid myself of the need continually to decipher my own life. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#meaning #stories #life

We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them. ↗

— Donald Miller

#purpose #stories #writing #life

Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering. ↗

— Rachel Naomi Remen

#culture #stories #wisdom #life

Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where we can go. They remind us of how to be human, how to live alongside the other lives that animate this planet. ... When we lose stories, our understanding of the world is less rich, less true. ↗

— Susan J. Tweit

#nature #stories #life

Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified. ↗

— Toba Beta

#falsified #histories #knowledge #life #people

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy... ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#beliefs #conditioning #cultural-conditioning #culture #eduction

It's so much more than a child's story. - Matt Chandler on LIFE Today. ↗

— Matt Chandler

#bible-stories #christian #christianity #god #jesus

Did you ever stand on a street corner in American at five o'clock in the morning? I did. ↗