COMPELLED TO INSCRIBE YOUR STORY

Text transcribed from Chris Cade's (C) Inscribe Your Life / Inspiring Quotes Video

I have become involved as a non-compensated volunteer contributor with Chris Cade and his Inscribe Your Life web presence. The first free community-building (and story-telling) ULR devoted "conflict", can be accessed below

Inscribe Your Life / Conflict .

Chris also offers a fee-based subscription to video content and community support. This is currently focused on calling out your Storyteller, to tell your story in words, then step up to awaken in your words and revise your story. In my humble opinion, this is modestly priced and good quality practice, as well as support by Chris and the forming community.

Below are quotes to support the healing power of telling stories and becoming involved in the re-authoring and re-writing of our own life stories. May you find your own voice to inscribe your own story.


"Thou shalt not" is soon forgotten, but "once upon a time" lasts forever - Phillip Pullman

The shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story - Anthony De Mello

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories - Ursula K. LeGuin

To be a person is to have a story to tell - Isak Dinesen

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes - Benjamin Disraeli

Fairy tales are more than true, not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten - G. K. Chesterson

Sometimes the story finds the storyteller, not the other way around - T.L. Pierson, Neverwas

The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than the stories it loves and believes in - Harold Goddard

A hero is an ordinary person who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles - Christopher Reeve

What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what my happen, I have to go forward - Bastian, The Neverending Story

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging - Joseph Campbell

What is to give light must endure burning - Victor Frankl

Anything unattempted remains impossible - Unknown

Challenges are what make life interesting: overcoming them is what makes life meaningful - Joshua J. Marine

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict - William Ellery Channing

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength that can overcome adversity - Albert Schweitzer

I truly believe we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live - Gillian Anderson

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life - John Barth

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. Barry Lopez

Our stories are not about what happened nearly as much as how we feel about what happened - Victoria Moran

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world - Philip Pullman

It's the process of writing and life that matters ... we are trying to become sane along with our poems and stories - Natalie Goldberg

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you - Maya Angelou

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of writers own life. - Eudora Welty

Because there is a natural storytelling urge and ability in all human beings, even just a little nurturing of this impulse can bring about astonishing and delightful results - Nancy Mellon

Stories can conquer fear you know. They can make the heart larger - Ben Okri

Live your life from your heart. Share your heart. And your stories will touch and heal peoples' souls - Melody Beattie

Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth. - Janal-al-Din Rumi

Bless this gift of the story-teller awakening within us. Allow this to unfurl in us, as well as in our communities and to breath life into these stories of service and love and the deep pain and pleasure of reclaiming what it means to be vulnerable, innocent and alive - Howard McQueen