Stories are Beings. You invite them to live with you. They'll teach you what they know in return for being a good host. When they're ready to move on, they'll let you know. Then you pass them on to someone elseA Cree story teller
God created man because he loves stories
Elie Wiesel
A Zuni once asked an anthropologist, who was carefully writing down a story, "When I tell you these stories, do you see it, or do you just write it down?"
Dennis Tedlock
A story may illuminate our relationship to others, encourage compassion, create a sense of wonder, or sanction the concept "We are all in this together." A story may shock us into recognizing a new truth, provide a new perspective, a new way to perceive the universe
Ruth Stotter
The word "story" comes from "storehouse". So a story is a story or a storehouse. Things are actually stored in the story, and what tends to be stored there is its meaning
Michael Meade
We really don't learn anything from our experience. We only learn from reflecting on our experience
Robert Sinclair
A disciple once complained, "You tell us stories, but you never reveal their meaning to us." The master replied, "How would you like it if someone offered you fruit and chewed it up for you before giving it to you?"
Source Unknown
Stories are stepping stones on the path to spiritual enlightment
Ruth Stotter
To Navajos, a person's worth is determined by the stories and songs she or he knows, because it is by this knowledge that an individual is linked to the history of the entire group
Luci Tapahonso
Love conquers all
Virgil
Stories are like fairy gold. The more you give away the more you have
Polly McGuire
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded
Maya Angelou
You must give time to your fellow men--even if it's a little thing, do something for others--something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it
Albert Schweitzer
Love cures people--both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it
Dr. Karl Menninger
Teach only love, for that is what you are
A Course on Miracles
The soul is healed by being with children
Fyoder Dostoyavski
Everyone needs recognition for his accomplishments, but few people make the need known quite as clearly as the little boy who said to his father: "Let's play darts. I'll throw and you say 'Wonderful!'"
The Best of Bits & Pieces
Teachers are those who use themselves as bridges, over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own
Nikos Kazantzakis
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our heart and we are never, ever the same
Tanya Cuva
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all
Carlos Castaneda
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage
W. Clement Stone
Our real blessings often appear to us in shapes of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures
Joseph Addison
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them
Antoine de Saint Exupery
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it
Spanish Proverb
We are challenged on every hand to work untiringly to achieve excellence in our lifework. Not all men are called to specialized or professional jobs; even fewer rise to the heights of genius in the arts and sciences; many are called to be laborers in factories, fields and streets. But no work is insignificant. All labour that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I visualized where I wanted to be, what kind of player I wanted to become. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there
Michael Jordan
Obstacles cannot crush men, every obstacle yields to stern resolve
Leonardo da Vinci
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements
Napoleon Hill
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional
Source Unknown
They can because they think they can
Virgil
Adversity introduces a man to himself
Anonymous
In the depth of winter I finally learned there was in me invincible summer
Albert Camus
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it
Moliere
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars
Charles A. Beard
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were not limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse
Helen Keller
If you don't hear opportunity knocking, find another door
Source Unknown
God helps them that helps themselves
Benjamin Franklin
Many things are lost for want of asking
English Proverb
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution
Wernher von Braun
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible
Henry Ford
The dedicated life is the life worth living
Annie Dillard
Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him
Henry Miller
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths
Prov. 3:5-6
Wisdom comes more from living than from studying
Anonymous
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books
Chinese Proverb
Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours
Anonymous
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there.
I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the autumn rain.
When you awake in morning hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of birds circling in flight.
I am the stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there.
I do not sleep.
Author Unknown
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