Personal Story Quotes

“I am not sure exactly what healing is or looks like, what form it comes in, what it should feel like. I do know that when I was four I could not lift a gallon of milk, could not believe how heavy it was, that white sloshing boulder. I'd pull up a wooden chair to stand over the counter, pouring milk with two shaking arms, wetting the cereal, spilling. Looking back I don't remember the day I lifted it with ease. All I know is now I do it without thinking, can do it one-handed, on the phone, in a rush. I believe the same rules apply, that one day I'll be able to tell this story without it shaking my foundation, Each time will not require an entire production, a spilling, a sweating forehead, a mess to clean up, sopping paper towels. It will just be part of my life, every day lighter to lift.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“Be an advocate for the people and causes important to you, using the most powerful tool only you have—your personal stories.”
― John Capecci and Timothy Cage

“There exists a universal order that we each play a distinct role in carrying out. Light always struggles to emerge from darkness. Each of us is the bearer of our own lantern. We find ourselves when we realize our place in an interconnected world. The struggle to pierce the darkness that shrouds us from realizing a state of perceptive awareness is the biggest part of both our individual story and our communal storyline.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Sometimes we have to inspire and encourage ourselves, through our personal narrative. And we start with what we know.”
― Deborah L. Parker, For People of Strength, Soul, and Spirit: Seven Guidelines for Life & Career Success

“There have been numerous times I have not brought up my case because I do not want to upset anybody or spoil the mood. Because I want to preserve your comfort...You will find society asking you for the happy ending, saying come back when you're better, when what you say can make us feel good, when you have something more uplifting, affirming.

...I've found that victims identify more with pain than platitudes. When I write about weakness, about how I am barely getting through this, my hope is that they feel better, because it aligns with the truth they are living...I write because the most healing words I have been given are It's okay not to be okay...”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“Our personal story has many chapters that reconnoiter universal themes. We each struggle to understand ourselves and aspire to make ourselves known to the world. We struggle to win the love of other people. We seek to pick all the low hanging fruit that we come across in our journey through the corridor of time. We write our story in the Niagara of emotional experiences that flowing watercourse makes us human. We use a profusion of words, symbols, and the nuances pulled from a rich library of language to depict the cascade of our visions, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, dreams, and infelicitous thoughts. We use logical and dialectal thought processes when communing with our inner self. We use self-speak along with the esemplastic powers of poetic imagination, sprinkled with the fizz of creativity, to cohere disparate chapters of our life into a unified whole and relay the effervescence of our story to other people.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We must carefully cultivate the voice that speaks to us because an internal voice is the ultimate narrator of our charming and delightful personal story or the documentarian of our tragic and disgraceful plotlines. Stories that we tell ourselves become our functional reality, which format structures the concourse of the nested emotional control panel that guides and girds us through the din of the present.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Storytelling entails weaving a narrative out of the disturbing, strange, inspirational, and unremarkable detritus of life. By picking among the litter of our personal experiences to select evocative anecdotes to weave into a narrative format, we reveal which of life’s legendary offerings prove the most sublime to us. Acts of omission are momentous. Our narration of personal sketches divulge what factoids inspire us or do not stir us into action, or contain obdurate truths that prove virtually impossible to crack.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I’m not ashamed to use my face, my voice, or my story to open doors and get our message out into the larger world. I try to create a “soft” introduction to engage people and bring them into the world of burns”
― Celia Belt, Remarkably Intact: Angels Are No Strangers to Chains

“The stories others tell about you and the stories you tell about yourself: which come closer to the truth? Is it so clear that they are your own? Is one an authority on oneself? but that really isn't the question that concerns me. The real question is: In such stories, is there really a difference between true and false? In stories about the outside, surely. But when we set out to understand someone on the inside? Is that a trip that ever comes to an end? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?”
― Pascal Mercier

“You can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself." Margot promised.”
― Adrienne Brodeur, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

“Advocating well with a personal story is not a call to simply “Insert Story Here.”
― John Capecci and Timothy Cage, Living Proof: Telling Your Story to Make a Difference

“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 memories out of seclusion. Reexamination of our historical existence under the light of growing conscious awareness assist us make psychological breakthroughs. Analyzing the elemental substance of our personal story from a sundry of viewpoints employing techniques of literature, philosophy, logical reasoning, and abstract thinking assist us perceive our discrete chronicle in symbolic terms and in mythological context.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“When writing a personal story of what it means to be alive, a person is simply replicating on paper the universal story that all human beings share.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I was struck, though, that even as the women share their experiences, they seem to remain essentially alone in them. They tell their stories, but they do not seem to connect with the others in doing so, and in the end, the film depicts confession as empty. These women open themselves up but do not receive compassion, understanding, or closeness in the space they have freed. I wonder if this is in part why I didn't tell for so long, because of the fear of the hunger that might remain even after disclosure.”
― Susan Burton, Empty

“The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.”
― Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening

“Our story begins at home, but it doesn’t have to end there.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

“It’s not by story alone that successful advocates urge others to take action. Advocating with our personal stories takes a specific kind of preparation. It requires practice with elements of persuasion, public speaking, media interview skills and storytelling—not to mention healthy does of fortitude and commitment.”
― John Capecci and Timothy Cage

“You may have come to advocacy on your own, it may be part of your job or you may have been asked to “put a face” on a campaign by serving as its spokesperson. You may be acting as a lone crusader or as part of a larger advocacy effort. Either way, you share an objective with all other advocates: to have your story move audiences from apathy to empathy to action.”
― John Capecci and Timothy Cage, Living Proof: Telling Your Story to Make a Difference

“We are each authors of a self-concocted depiction establishing our present day identity. Our persona is woven from a range of truths interweaved with inspired imagination and occasionally bounded by convenient falsehoods. Creating our personal story generates an identity myth that allows us to carry on.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The language used in telling our personal story affects us. We reflect our mind chatter.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Whenever we share a personal story with other people, we provide an enchanting testament that illustrates the distinctive tinting of our estranged and prose-like being.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Your life is a personal story of Godhead.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, Theology of Digital Physics: Phenomenal Consciousness, The Cosmic Self & The Pantheistic Interpretation of Our Holographic Reality

“...it allowed me to engage with my experience intellectually instead of practically, to analyze it instead of trying to fix it. And it demonstrated how another woman, in another time, had struggled with a version of my problem and tried to make sense of her story in her own language.”
― Susan Burton, Empty

“My pen and paper can do this better, tell you the story about black girl raised by her father in a poor family rural area with no education and better qualifications to make her life better that me the only thing I had was dream and goal to turn around my situation the bigger I dreamed It what I managed to get as I mentioned the only thing that I know is sound of birds,trees,my dad's goats that I was a sherped of it and water flows I made a decision that I don't want to die on that situation.”
― Nozipho N.Maphumulo

“Connection starts with sharing a personal story”
― Diane van den Heuvel

“Three Things I Know To Be True:
1. Yes. You ARE a writer.
2. The world is waiting for YOUR voice.
3. Nobody can tell your story but YOU.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“Of course! Here's a quote inspired by the themes of your book:

"Breaking free from manipulation isn't just about escaping someone's control—it's about rediscovering your strength, your worth, and your power to choose your own path."

Let me know if you'd like me to craft something with a different tone or emphasis!”
― Zedina Blake

“Breaking free from manipulation isn't just about escaping someone's control—it's about rediscovering your strength, your worth, and your power to choose your own path.”
― Zedina Blake, "Under Control: Manipulation and Disillusionment": How Narcissists Control You and How to Take Back Your Power"