{"quotes":[{"text":"I always felt as if I'd been handed a cardboard box crammed full of monkeys. I'd take the monkeys out of the box one at a time, carefully brush off the dust, give them a pat on the bottom, and send them scurrying off into the fields. I never knew where they went from there.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["life-stories","listening"],"id":22532,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.","author":"Michael Frayn","tags":["experiences","life-stories","reality-of-life","truths"],"id":25329,"author_id":"Michael+Frayn"},{"text":"Everyone is special; every moment in our life is unique. However difficult or painful a situation may look at present, it soon becomes a memory and a special journey. Memories make us who we are, but it also starts declining with age. There are many ways to preserve these special moments so that we can cherish a story that's our own.","author":"Auliq Ice","tags":["alikkais","auliq-ice","auliq-ice","difficult-times","difficulties","difficulties-of-life","encouragement","inspirational","life","life-stories","life-struggles","memories","motivational","painful-memories","self-encouragement","self-improvement","self-love","self-worth","self-worthiness"],"id":48338,"author_id":"Auliq+Ice"},{"text":"One day I will tell you a story. A story that will make you ponder. A story that will make you wonder. A story that will give you another story. One day I will tell you a story. A story about life. A story about my life. One day I will tell you a story!","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["anguish","behind-the-scenes","behind-the-smile","ernest-agyemang-yeboah","good-times","hard-times","life","life-of-an-","life-stories","perplexities","reasons-for-failure","reasons-to-be-happy","silence"],"id":97099,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Great men do not experience small challenges. They face great challenge but that is what makes them great. That is what give them great story. That is what inspires them to live and leave distinctive footprints on minds. Though they face great challenges, they gather great momentum and strength to fight such challenges with fortitude and tenacity to the satisfaction of their inner man. Great men, though they face great challenges, they always come out of the challenges as great men with great stories. They live and leave distinctive footprints of life on minds.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["attitude","challenges","challenges-of-life","difficulties-of-life","do-something","dont-give-up","footprints","fortitude","great-men-and-women","great-men","great-people","hard-times","inspirational-life","life","life-stories","tenacity","thought","tough-times"],"id":134468,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"While we are living, our lives are like that of an open book, still being written. Eventually, our book closes for us, and to others, it will be as if we never existed at all. Those of us who write down our life story, will leave a little piece of us behind when we're gone.” -Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found (Vol. #1).","author":"Nina Jean Slack","tags":["books","emotional","journals","life","life-stories","people","story-of-my-life"],"id":172025,"author_id":"Nina+Jean+Slack"},{"text":"Music is not my life. My life is music.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["adventure","art","artist","autobiography","biography","experiences","interesting","life","life-stories","living","living-life","living-life-to-the-fullest","lyrics","memoir","music","music-is-my-life","musician","passion","poetry","song","songwriting","soundtrack","stories","story","tales","writing"],"id":203741,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"In Western culture, virtually everything is understood through the process of storytelling, often to the detriment of reality. When we recount history, we tend to use the life experience of one person — the “journey” of a particular “hero,” in the lingo of the mythologist Joseph Campbell — as a prism for understanding everything else.","author":"Chuck Klosterman","tags":["interpretation","life-stories","mythology","people","reality","storytelling","understanding"],"id":222608,"author_id":"Chuck+Klosterman"},{"text":"Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["awareness","behaviour","belief-systems","child-development","conditioning","education-system","family-background","family-relationships","inspiring","life-stories","programming","rasheed-ogunlaru","thought-patterns","upbringing"],"id":228645,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"You begin with other people's stories and end up with your own.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["life-stories","stories"],"id":240828,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}