Quotes about Life Story

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. Votes: 6

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. Votes: 5

One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize. Votes: 5

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. Votes: 4

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story. Votes: 3

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels. Votes: 3

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become. Votes: 3

I'm a minor player in my own life story. Votes: 2

You write your life story by the choices you make, Votes: 2

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody. Votes: 2

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. Votes: 2

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. Votes: 2

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story. Votes: 2

Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story. Votes: 2

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it. Votes: 2

That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. Votes: 2

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult. Votes: 2

I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday life. Votes: 2

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story. Votes: 2

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means. Votes: 2

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family. Votes: 2

Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason. Votes: 2

Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await the time of promise, his life-story disintegrates into a myriad of unconnected instants. Votes: 2

I'm going to have to call up Spike Lee. I did a cameo for him in 'Malcolm X,' and I'm trying to get him to do my life story and the history of the Black Panther Party. Votes: 2

The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions. Votes: 2

In the face of events that threaten to overwhelm our lives, storytelling gives us a way of reclaiming ourselves and reaffirming our connections with other people-those who listen to our stories and, by doing so, bear witness with us. Votes: 2

We all have a life story and a message that can inspire others to live a better life or run a better business. Why not use that story and message to serve others and grow a real business doing it? Votes: 2

I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in the other and truly believed that anything was possible. Votes: 2

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand. Votes: 2

When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence. Votes: 2

I had to stop traveling alone because I missed so many planes. When somebody runs up to you in the airport and begins to tell you their life story, you can't say, 'Excuse me, boo,' as they're weeping on your bosom. Votes: 2

They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through. Votes: 2

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first. Votes: 2

We must keep in mind that only a part of memory can be translated into the language-based packets of information people use to tell their life stories to others. Learning to be open to many layers of communication is a fundamental part of getting to know another person's life. Votes: 2

Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow. Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to. Votes: 2

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction. Votes: 2

I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse, a free trip to Chantilly, marriage, a large unsolicited loan, ten tips for a ten-horse race, two second-hand cars, a fight, and the copyright to a dying jockey's life story. Votes: 2

My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty. Votes: 2

I couldn't find any meaning for my life when I was out there, I'm sure as hell not going to find it in here. This is the grand finale of a life poorly spent and the end result is just overwhelmingly depressing... it's just a sick, pathetic, wretched, miserable life story, that's all it is. How it can help anyone, I've no idea. Votes: 2

My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met. Votes: 1

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes. Votes: 1

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it. Votes: 1

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.' Votes: 1

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. Votes: 1

Life is a story. Votes: 0

Life is a story within a story. Votes: 0

Make your life a story worth telling, Votes: 0

Life is too short for a long story Votes: 0

Life is too short for a long story. Votes: 0

Be the hero of your own life story. Votes: 0

One life, One story. Make it a fairytale. Votes: 0

Life is an endless story of lover and beloved. Votes: 0

My autobiography was simply the story of my life. Votes: 0

Not everyone's life will be a great love story. Votes: 0

There's only one story, the story of your life. Votes: 0

Life is story, until I realized life as sacred. Votes: 0

I told my whole life story in my book. Votes: 0

I'm just basically telling a story of my life. Votes: 0

My friends have made the story of my life. Votes: 0

Must I tell the story of my life again? Votes: 0

A story about my life would be utterly dull. Votes: 0

A human life is a story told by God. Votes: 0

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment. Votes: 0

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life. Votes: 0

Life is an adventurous story filled with triumph and tragedy. Votes: 0

It's time to begin righting the story of your life. Votes: 0

Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story. Votes: 0

My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story. Votes: 0

I've tried to live my life right, just like a story. Votes: 0

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. Votes: 0

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident. Votes: 0

Imagine a new story for your life and start living it. Votes: 0

Good and bad - this is the story of my life. Votes: 0

Your life should be a story you are excited to tell. Votes: 0

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life. Votes: 0

In life, every ending is just the start of another story. Votes: 0

Tell me your story and I will get back your life. Votes: 0

Change your story, change your life. Basically, that's what it is. Votes: 0

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life. Votes: 0

I agree strongly that no story is more valuable than someone's life. Votes: 0

All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life. Votes: 0

Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward. Votes: 0

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties. Votes: 0

I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life. Votes: 0

The path you create then follow becomes the story of your life. Votes: 0

Life is cold. People stay warm through the intimacy of a story. Votes: 0

Life is a fairytale if we know how to write the story. Votes: 0

Somehow life had become a story problem, and William was horrible at math. Votes: 0

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. Votes: 0

Life is a story, until I awake and saw life as a dream. Votes: 0

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life. Votes: 0

Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story Votes: 0

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story. Votes: 0

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. Votes: 0

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently. Votes: 0

Every life comes with a story ... and a possibility for a great adventure. Votes: 0

The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug. Votes: 0

Every day is a new opportunity to make your life a story worth telling. Votes: 0

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story. Votes: 0

Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life. Votes: 0

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life. Votes: 0

It's so much more than a child's story. - Matt Chandler on LIFE Today. Votes: 0

Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone. Votes: 0

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true. Votes: 0

You story must be best told by you. Your experience is a sacred life. Votes: 0

Each write the story of your life, so try writing the best you can. Votes: 0

life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so. Votes: 0

Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life. Votes: 0

Honestly, being a part of any worthy life story is a goal of mine. Votes: 0

Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure. Votes: 0

Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His. Votes: 0

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life. Votes: 0

That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late. Votes: 0

There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story. Votes: 0

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it. Votes: 0

I long to hear the story of your life, which must captivate the ear strangely. Votes: 0

I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium. Votes: 0

That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable. Votes: 0

You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day. Votes: 0

Money comes, money goes. But your story stays with you the rest of your life. Votes: 0

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life. Votes: 0

Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.So be passionate and write a great story. Votes: 0

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself. Votes: 0

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life. Votes: 0

We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. Votes: 0

Life is a love story, with every character yearning for permanent refuge in someone's heart. Votes: 0

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life. Votes: 0

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life. Votes: 0

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life. Votes: 0

There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life. Votes: 0

If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world. Votes: 0

It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct. Votes: 0

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. Votes: 0

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor. Votes: 0

That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop. Votes: 0

Living is not the story of your life. Living is the process of experiencing right now. Votes: 0

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. Votes: 0

The Story of My Life is drinking cups of tea, eating coco pops and playing Playstation. Votes: 0

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen. Votes: 0

How is a woman to tell the story of her life and not stumble upon men? Votes: 0

Every life has a purpose. Share your story and you may help someone find their own. Votes: 0

No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story. Votes: 0

Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level. Votes: 0

The story of your life is really the story of the relations between yourself and God. Votes: 0

Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat. Votes: 0

The way we tell our life story is the way we begin to live our life. Votes: 0

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end. Votes: 0

Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice. Votes: 0

If I want a long boring story with no point to it, I have my life. Votes: 0

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance. Votes: 0

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born. Votes: 0

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis. Votes: 0

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis Votes: 0

And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life". Votes: 0

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story. Votes: 0

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character. Votes: 0

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story. Votes: 0

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life. Votes: 0

This is the trouble with real-life story arcs: the happiness is so rarely saved for the end. Votes: 0

Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief. Votes: 0

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story. Votes: 0

Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time. Votes: 0

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life. Votes: 0

My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart. Votes: 0

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared. Votes: 0

All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing. Votes: 0

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me. Votes: 0

But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story... Votes: 0

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life. Votes: 0

For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story. Votes: 0

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority. Votes: 0

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life. Votes: 0

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary. Votes: 0

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life. Votes: 0

You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time. Votes: 0

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means. Votes: 0

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence. Votes: 0

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life. Votes: 0

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved. Votes: 0

Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story Votes: 0

If you're going to have someone win because of their story, go write a screenplay about your life. Votes: 0

A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home Votes: 0

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall. Votes: 0

If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story. Votes: 0

Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished. Votes: 0

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life. Votes: 0

I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story. Votes: 0

For me, Chanel just makes sense - like a story or a film. It's part of my life. Votes: 0

OCTOBER BABY is a profoundly beautiful story and a powerful testament to the importance of every human life. Votes: 0

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story? Votes: 0

I think I have a disease called spontaneous disclosure. I need to tell everyone my life story instantaneously. Votes: 0

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story. Votes: 0

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living. Votes: 0

Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life. Votes: 0

if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow Votes: 0

Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing. Votes: 0

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character. Votes: 0

The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices. Votes: 0

Too young to party, just odd enough to participate in federal investigations of serial murder. Story of my life. Votes: 0

Start telling the story of your amazing life, and the law of attraction must make sure you receive it! Votes: 0

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop. Votes: 0

Everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. This story is part of everyone's life. Votes: 0

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father. Votes: 0

Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls. Votes: 0

Life is like sex, baby - the more you put in, the more you get out. End of story. Votes: 0

WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House! Votes: 0

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. Votes: 0

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. Votes: 0

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. Votes: 0

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? Votes: 0

Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story. Votes: 0

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie. Votes: 0

You can just say the word "hair" to a woman, and she tells you the story of her life. Votes: 0

I can't help but tell people of the greatest story ever told - God's love and our eternal life. Votes: 0

I think there is something about a story that is enduring. Stories take on a life of their own. Votes: 0

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller Votes: 0

Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life. Votes: 0

The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography. Votes: 0

I have loved you all my life, Mal," I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story. Votes: 0

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again. Votes: 0

I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair. Votes: 0

To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die. Votes: 0

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out. Votes: 0

Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature. Votes: 0

Fill the pages of your life with the exciting story of triumph and tragedy, failure and victory, desire and discovery. Votes: 0

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters. Votes: 0

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother. Votes: 0

A law of life: at the precise instant when someone tells a truth, that truth is transformed into a story Votes: 0

The whole life story of Jesus, on the human side, is the life story of One who lived by faith. Votes: 0

[On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life. Votes: 0

Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes. Votes: 0

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments. Votes: 0

Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential. Votes: 0

That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough. Votes: 0

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background. Votes: 0

It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story. Votes: 0

I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life. Votes: 0

What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again! Votes: 0

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges. Votes: 0

You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act. Votes: 0

A well-thought-out story doesn't need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story. Votes: 0

The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life Votes: 0

There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it. Votes: 0

Really, it [the Waitress] was a story about believing in yourself ultimately, and caring enough about yourself to change your life. Votes: 0

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. Votes: 0

Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life. Votes: 0

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships. Votes: 0

Your life is meant to be an epic story. How you think, perform and live today is part of that script. Votes: 0

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life. Votes: 0

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience. Votes: 0

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour. Votes: 0

A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change. Votes: 0

Bones tell me the story of a person's life — how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background, Votes: 0

I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right. Votes: 0

The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life. Votes: 0

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life. Votes: 0

Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life. Votes: 0

Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own. Votes: 0

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story. Votes: 0

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism. Votes: 0

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person. Votes: 0

I beat a story to within an inch of its life - that's when I know its done. Not before, not after. Votes: 0

You are the only author of the story of your life. 'Fate' is just an excuse for all of your wrong decisions. Votes: 0

That story you're scared to share --- that story has the power to change both your life and the lives of others. Votes: 0

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story. Votes: 0

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character. Votes: 0

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea. Votes: 0

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. Votes: 0

I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem.Watch me burn.Love always, Charlotte Votes: 0

Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story. Votes: 0

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been. Votes: 0

What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share. Votes: 0

I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life is. Votes: 0

The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story. Votes: 0

To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life. Votes: 0

I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed. Votes: 0

We want to help everyone find meaning in their life and help translate the story that each person actually matters in the world. Votes: 0

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. Votes: 0

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story. Votes: 0

Life is a big story. Music is just one way to tell it, to realize how many tales all kinds of people share. Votes: 0

I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story. Votes: 0

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story. Votes: 0

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough. Votes: 0

Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars. Votes: 0

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life. Votes: 0

Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story. Votes: 0

Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story. Votes: 0

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them. Votes: 0

The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing. Votes: 0

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table. Votes: 0

You can't help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of life. Votes: 0

Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story. Votes: 0

To achieve in life is A hard story, you're starting to get the picture. It's hard work, and this is just the beginning. Votes: 0

Storytelling is at the heart of life. As a child, I was never bored because I could always get on with my story. Votes: 0

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. Votes: 0

Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come. Votes: 0

When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life story. Votes: 0

Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That's what death is for. That's why they keep telling this story. It's the only story. Votes: 0

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well. Votes: 0

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye. The story of love is Hello and Goodbye.Until we meet again....... Votes: 0

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story. Votes: 0

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again Votes: 0

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life. Votes: 0

You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have. Votes: 0

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances. Votes: 0

In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock. Votes: 0

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art. Votes: 0

Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story. Votes: 0

The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress. Votes: 0

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier. Votes: 0

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you. Votes: 0

Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story. Votes: 0

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it's going to have similarities with a real life child going missing. Votes: 0

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls. Votes: 0

In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and death. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better. Votes: 0

Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about. Votes: 0

You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper. Votes: 0

The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don't let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams. Votes: 0

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting. Votes: 0

Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down. Votes: 0

I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces. Votes: 0

If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your life so fully! Votes: 0

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess. Votes: 0

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are. Votes: 0

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib. Votes: 0

I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web. Votes: 0

My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's me. Votes: 0

If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle? Votes: 0

Remember each new day you get to turn a page in your life and write your own story. So how do you choose to write it? Votes: 0

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story. Votes: 0

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story. Votes: 0

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story. Votes: 0

Here is a story in the worst way. I have no business being anywhere in it. It comes between me and the life I have coming. Votes: 0

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side. Votes: 0

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am. Votes: 0

I want to play Lena Horne because I've always been fascinated with her. Her talent was astounding and more than that, her life story is incredible. Votes: 0

Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author. Votes: 0

This is a story about survival.Letting go and learning to let in. Getting along and moving on. The truth about life.The things left unsaid Votes: 0

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story. Votes: 0

When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story. Votes: 0

Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment. Votes: 0

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on. Votes: 0

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations. Votes: 0

Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters. Votes: 0

The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see. Votes: 0

To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life. Votes: 0

So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep. Votes: 0

At a very early age and continuing throughout my life, I have marveled at the beautiful story of the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow. Votes: 0

I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of a detective story. Votes: 0

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. Votes: 0

Her father lov'd me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have pass'd. Votes: 0

This is what life is about: seeing new places, meeting new people, grabbing life by the balls and squeezing until it coughs up a story worth telling. Votes: 0

So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep." Votes: 0

Steve Rom's bravery is unique. Faced with life-threatening circumstances, he focused his determination and spirit to defeat an unbeatable disease. Steve's story is an inspiration to all. Votes: 0

I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending. Votes: 0

Farscape' is a story about family. It's a story about creating life in a harsh environment. That's what a lot of people relate to in the story. Votes: 0

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned. Votes: 0

Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story. Votes: 0

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell. Votes: 0

What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong? Votes: 0

Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book. Votes: 0

Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story. Votes: 0

But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything. Votes: 0

... 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... Votes: 0

When we all pass from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have is his own story to tell. Votes: 0

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower! Votes: 0

I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director. Votes: 0

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. Votes: 0

Your life is truly your life… it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well Votes: 0

When you think about justifiable anger in one's personal life, we look at those scenarios in everyday life and through our story with a superhero, we heighten them. Votes: 0

Not only is your story your truth, your story is going to be the platform and the foundation for everything that's getting ready to happen in your life. Votes: 0

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea. Votes: 0

If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters. Votes: 0

If you ever want to get anywhere in life, you're going to have to push it, and somebody's going to push you to get there. End of story. Votes: 0

That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life's work remains elusive. Votes: 0

Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story. Votes: 0

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved. Votes: 0

A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way. Votes: 0

Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective. Votes: 0

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another. Votes: 0

the story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy tale, the German kind, unsweetened by Disney. Votes: 0

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are. Votes: 0

Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes. Votes: 0

I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one. Votes: 0

In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time. Votes: 0

Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life. Votes: 0

The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term of life is already numbered. Votes: 0

Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style of a veteran journalist. Votes: 0

Migration is the story of my life: my parents and grandparents journeyed across four continents to flee war and find jobs, eventually finding their way to the U.S. Votes: 0

The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed. Votes: 0

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics. Votes: 0

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life. Votes: 0

But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration. Votes: 0

Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise. Votes: 0

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t. Votes: 0

I think a day in your life on which nothing bad happens may be a wonderful day, but it probably isn't going to be the basis of a story. Votes: 0

We need the whole song, all the verses and the choruses to serve us as our own story unfolds because- trust me- life is hard, but God is good. Votes: 0

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it. Votes: 0

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. Votes: 0

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples. Votes: 0

This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars. Votes: 0

It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life you have to rescue yourself. Votes: 0

The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates. Votes: 0

If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself? Votes: 0

A person’s life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they’re actually willing to sacrifice for it. Votes: 0

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me. Votes: 0

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it. Votes: 0

What I'm trying to do in [Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions. Votes: 0

My story, or my life or my legacy can hopefully show [fans] that once you’re down, that doesn’t mean you’re down forever. You never let up. Votes: 0

My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever-expanding. My love and my life with you will be a never-ending story. My love with you is never-ending Votes: 0

I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life. Votes: 0

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum. Votes: 0

Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story. Votes: 0

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author ... Votes: 0

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. Votes: 0

Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you. Votes: 0

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me. Votes: 0

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer. Votes: 0

During his brilliant campaign, President Obama wove a powerful narrative about the American we all hope for. And that hope was grounded in a very powerful reality: President Obama's own inspiring life story. Votes: 0

I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives. Votes: 0

I did a film called 'Victor' that I'm really proud of! It was a period piece and the true life story of Victor Torres. I play his mom, and it's a very moving film. Votes: 0

For him, she was the evil one; the antagonist to his life story. The reason he was married at an early age.And to her, he would always be her infatuation gone horribly wrong. Votes: 0

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story. Votes: -1