Storytelling Quotes
Everything was a broken line for me in those days. I was slipped into the empty spaces between words.
Mindfulness allows us to shift the angle on our story and to remember that we have the capacity to learn and change in ways that are productive, not self-defeating.
Our senses are often the gateway to our stories.
We testify of what we have experienced and witnessed. May our testimony inspired others to share their story.
Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness.
Be brave to share your story! Each of our stories, have a golden treasure for a specific need.
Vesta was so good with paperwork – you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she’d construct a story from it worthy of a novel.
By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.
As soon as we open our eyes in the morning, what we want most is to matter, to live a life and to do a work that has meaning. We have evolved to feel this way. Man's first thought was 'I AM'.
He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.
Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and forgery, perplexity and urgency, revelation and darkness.
When I was very little, my mother used to say there was something of my grandmother in me, in how I tell stories the way I need them to be and not the way they actually happened.
Once upon a time--which, when you come to think of it, is reallythe only proper way to begin a story--the only way that reallysmacks of romance and fairyland--
Once you realize life is magic, you will never look upon the world with dimmed eyes again.
Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.
Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but they want to learn magic after they see a great magic effect.
First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.
The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell.
Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn.
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...
Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship.
I am a storyteller, spiraling fantasy and reality into mystical tales. That eerie space between fact and fiction, where only the brightest light can scare the shadows—you will find me there.
When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.
