Life Story Quotes

“I want my life to be the greatest story.
My very existence will be the greatest poem.
Watch me burn.
Love always, Charlotte”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“No one gets to tell you what your life means!”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourself
and let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.
Let your very identity be your book.
Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to?”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“God gives the exact experiences he wants them to have in order to shape the specific destiny he designed for them.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that.”
― Lucy Foley, The Book of Lost and Found

“Everyone in our town has a story--but it's not the one he tells himself. Its author has a thousand eyes, a thousand ears, and five hundred pens that never stop scribbling.”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

“There's a story here.

A catastrophic silence where our thoughts and feelings collide ...

Where your sweetness overrides my senses and our bodies move to the same tune.

The same song.
The same melody.
The same stroke.
The same rhythm.

It's our story, Trinity, and it's just begging to be told.”
― Nadège Richards, 5 Miles

“That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

“Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own.”
― Majid Kazmi

“People tailor their life stories for particular audiences. The recipient or audience for a story may crucially influence the stories form. Audiences are both social and intrapsychic – we have internalized private audiences.”
― Dan P McAdams

“Leave no "full stop" in between the sentences that make up your life story. If anything, let "commas" show that when you were brought down by challenges, you rose up with passion and moved on again!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“We have more control than most of us realize. Each day is filled with thousands of opportunities to change the story of our lives.”
― Michael Hyatt, Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want

“We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man.”
― Susana Fortes

“Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines that she could read.”
― Dean Koontz, Saint Odd

“Ive learnt the most about myself through the people and places i no longer visit, such an ironic exprience.
The greatest lessons are from those we give the keys of our hearts to & trust all too easily; realising later on, they are just apart of this grande' story and not everyone gets to make it to the end chapter & happy ever after.”
― Nikki Rowe

“Without seeing the whole picture and without knowing the whole story of a man’s life, our judgements about him will most probably be wrong and unfair!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition of narrative include the important element of giving meaning to events and experiences over time by connecting them as a developing, continuing story.”
― Jacqui Stedmon

“A volte, è dietro le grandi sofferenze che si nascondono le più grandi gioie...”
― Giusy Moscato, SAL Sisters

“With every passing day, we add a page to our personal story, an illustrative script that casts our character shaped by an implacable external environment and fashioned by our supple state of inwardness.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Language allows us to represent autobiographical events in the past, present and future; we can imagine events that have not yet happened, that we wish to happen or fear will happen. Jerome Bruner first proposed narratives as the best candidate for how people give meaning to the world, themselves and dominated in our everyday representation of our lives, rather than narrower units that featured in the information processing paradigm at that time.”
― Jacqui Stedmon

“Nuclear episodes stand out in bold print in life story as narrative high points, low points and turning points, explaining how the person has remained the same and how he or she has changed over time.”
― Dan P. McAdams

“Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Crossing the Atlantic on that new day was supposed to be a sharp delineation, a from-now-on demarcation in my life story. What I took off from was not supposed to arrive with me upon landing or ever pulse in me again. From the ocean and sky and the hours in flight, I intended to extract a selective, permanent amnesia.”
― Laurie Perez, The Look of Amie Martine

“Storytelling entails weaving a narrative out of the disturbing, strange, inspirational, and unremarkable detritus of life. By picking among the litter of our personal experiences to select evocative anecdotes to weave into a narrative format, we reveal which of life’s legendary offerings prove the most sublime to us. Acts of omission are momentous. Our narration of personal sketches divulge what factoids inspire us or do not stir us into action, or contain obdurate truths that prove virtually impossible to crack.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Our reflection of action occurs in different contexts which may influence us to shape our accounts in different ways for different audiences - our colleagues, supervisor, trainers or examiners. Wwe story our lives in ways that give human meaning and purpose to our endeavors, and these stories in turn shape and guide our future actions.”
― Jacqui Stedmon

“هیچ کس منو نمی خواد، حتی خودمم خودمو می خواد،ک..رم تو من!”
― سجاد زارعیان