118 quotes found
“I don,t just want success for my self ,I want my success to benefit others .Osman Gulum”
“The womb of the world births us. My filth comes from the same earthwork that gives rise to all stories. My interior light connects me with all the other creatures that inhabit this world of rocks, ...”
“It's about personal development. It's about creating your own character and pushing it to the limit. It's about pushing yourself so far out of your own and everybody else's idea of who you are and ...”
“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind of life permits a person the right t...”
“Telling our personal story constitutes an act of consciousness that defines the ethical lining of a persons constitution. Recounting personal stories promotes personal growth, spurs the performance...”
“Those is seek to profit from the torment of others will eventually pay the piper”
“You can tell it any way you want, he said, you can be I or he or she or we or they or you and you won't be lying, though you might be telling two stories at once.”
“It was her smile that took me captive the day we met, and never once let me go. There was an authentic quality to her smile that made people stop and look; a basic human truth that seemed to emanat...”
“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past and the present and predicting the future. An inner voice calls to t...”
“Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a persons mind to explore paradoxes and discover previously unrealiz...”
“Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.”
“Anyone with an autobiography is almost definitely an evil piece of shit.”
“Periodic Paralysis is not our friend”
“Human souls enfold the elemental elements that we configure to provide our own distinctive explanation of what it means to be alive. By opening our hearts and minds, by engaging in intuitive self-e...”
“Telling our personal story reveals the shape shifting landscape of our mind.”
“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 evocativ...”
“People naturally impose a narrative story-line upon their experiences. Autobiographical writing allows a person to cast their experiences into a narrative thread and organize their thoughts based n...”
“Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.”
“No child should have to see all that I have seen”
“One day someone is going to read my autobiography and say Wow, what a horror novel”
