Life Stories Quotes

Life Stories Quote of the day

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Make your life a story worth telling.

Change your story, change your life. Basically, that's what it is.

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story

A story about my life would be utterly dull.

All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life.

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

Every day is a new opportunity to make your life a story worth telling.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

I think of a myth as a story that helps you explain all the different pieces of your life. In that broad sense, there is no way to live without mythology.

The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.

If you're going to have someone win because of their story, go write a screenplay about your life.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

So like what I want to do is connect all of my albums and make it tell a bigger kind of story. So the first album is very focused on her family life and her love life.

I think I'm a big romantic, so being part of those stories, that’s such a big part of anyone’s life in general, that’s such a humane thing.

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland.

We all have our own story. And we stay attached to our story. This can stop us from growing and living. You wanna make your life better? Change your story, change your life.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

Must I tell the story of my life again?

In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife. And now you see stretched out before thee Just another story of a life.

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

Are you loving having these great iconic stories back as much as I am? 'One Life' is back in action and I love putting my 'Blair on' again.

Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories.

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

Everyone's got a different story.

My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always close to the world, the life, the reality it describes. No matter where I go, I’m still holding up a mirror.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

our lives are stories we tell ourselves.

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.

I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

There's only one story, the story of your life.

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.