New Stories Quotes

“What we need now are new stories to share with each other, new tales to live into the world, which is to say, stories to make real by living our own versions of them.”
― Bill Plotkin, Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World

“Try try try and try again. If the answer is still no, change up your tactics. Keep trying until you get to the yes. ”
― Germany Kent

“Bears and wolves are our fairy-tale archenemies, and in these tales we teach our children only, and always, to kill them, rather than to tiptoe past and let them sleep. Maybe that's why I'm comforted by the image of a small child curled in the embrace of a mother bear. We need new bear and wolf tales for our times, since so many of our old ones seem to be doing us no good. Now we're finding that it takes our every effort of will and imagination to pull back, to stop in our tracks as hunger and hunted, to halt our habit of killing, before every kind of life we know arrives at the brink of extinction.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder