1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

As the number of oral cultures in the world has diminished, interest in them has grown, and one of the most intriguing questions is whether there might be such a thing as an ‘oral way of seeing’, a worldview common to oral peoples that might be different in some generalizable way from the worldview of people in cultures with writing.

Wondering is an entirely different pastime for you, I think. You can turn it into something more than worry.

There was time for all their miracles now. For ghosts and transformations; for passion and ambiguity; for noonday visions and midnight glory. Time in abundance.For nothing ever begins.And this story, having no beginning, will have no end

Our senses are often the gateway to our stories.

Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.

Living in a story of a limited self—to any degree—is not love.

Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.

The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.

Mindfulness allows us to shift the angle on our story and to remember that we have the capacity to learn and change in ways that are productive, not self-defeating.