Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.
– Laurence Overmire
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- No matter what path you’re on in this life, if that path isn’t about love, you’re on the wrong path. – Laurence Overmire
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- Those who oppose equality, compassion and social justice have been on the wrong side of history time and time again. – Laurence Overmire
- The way to peace, harmony and balance for the planet is through the loving kindness of each individual heart. – Laurence Overmire
- The future is won or lost in the war of ideas. – Laurence Overmire
- Good people turn to love, courage and kindness in times of crisis, not hate, fear and cruelty. – Laurence Overmire
- Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty. – Laurence Overmire
- Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language. – Laurence Overmire
- Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatures that compels us to act on their behalf. – Laurence Overmire
- From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch. – Laurence Overmire
- When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling. – Hillel F Damron
- Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward. – Bridget Asher
- Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it. – Catherynne M Valente
- What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
- The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. – Anita Diamant
- If you don’t learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you’ll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting. – Elizabeth Gilbert
- It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one…. – Laurence Sterne
- what’s real within the story is real within the story – Jo Walton
- With regards to getting laid and getting AIDS: Being interesting can be an interesting guy’s downfall. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Anyway, I don’t trust those people who poke around sad people’s minds and tell them how interesting it all is up there. It’s not interesting. – Ottessa Moshfegh
- You don’t find a masked man wielding a gun interesting? Tell me…what do you find interesting then-Matt Carter – Natasha Larry
- We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves. – Jack Gardner
- 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. – Isaac Babel
- 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. – Unarine Ramaru
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- The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold – Dan Brown
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- There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told. – David Byrne
- Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward. – Marilyn Vos Savant
- Contrary to popular belief, going shopping is really about stopping afterward for cheesecake. – Bonnie Jensen
- The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway
- Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same. – Anandamayi Ma
- I know that the problem isn’t the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake. – Emily Giffin
- Childhood isn’t just those years. It’s also the opinions you form about them afterward. That’s why our childhoods are so long. – Kim Stanley Robinson
- Once a decision was made, I didn’t worry about it afterward… – Harry Truman