207 quotes found
“I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their smell and texture was comforting.”
“Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking.”
“In Edmund Gosse, Agnes Smedley, Geoffrey Wolff, we have a set of memoirists whose work records a steadily changing idea of the emergent self. But for each of them a flash of insight illuminating th...”
“The harsh dimness that follows loss isnt static, but charged with the energy of immanent change. Hurt, I was left with a choice: wallow and stay in the dark, or seek light and fight to reach it. Th...”
“Recounting the narrative of our personal story in a methodical and chronological manner helps us see our life in a historical perspective. Telling our personal stories allows us to bring hibernated...”
“Nothing is wasted when you are a writer. The stuff that doesn't work has to be written to make way for the stuff that might; often you need to take the long way around. And if you're writing memoir...”
“I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there.”
“We write our life stories detailing our worldly experiences in order to expose the unconscious mind to the world of conscious appreciation. By extending our consciousness, we bring material insight...”
“However, narrating what you remember, telling it to someone, does something else. The more a person recalls a memory, the more they change it. Each time they put it into language, it shifts. The mo...”
“How well do you know the people who raised you? Look around your dining room table. Look around at your loved ones, especially the elders. The grandparents and the aunts and uncles who used to give...”
“The story of what it means to be human is never complete. Every generation will produce its own share of comedies and tragedies, fools and geniuses. What the Greeks started the rest of the world wi...”
“Our stories are our best gifts--treasure and share them!”
“It is important to measure ourselves at least once in life, undertake a personal odyssey that constructs a clarifying prism of our being.”
“This is hell, but I planned it. I sawed it,I nailed it, and I will live in it until it kills me.I can nail my left palm to the left-hand crosspiece butI cant do everything myself. I need a hand to ...”
“I learned in therapy the word "No" is a complete sentence.”
“Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.”
“Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace.”
“Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.”
“ that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other...”
“A marriage, willy-nilly, requires you to trust that your spouse will tell your story truthfully and lovingly when you are no longer around to tell it yourself.”
