{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["essayist","essays","memoir","memoir-writing","memoirs","personal-story","self-awareness","self-discovery","self-discovery","self-realization","stories","stories-from-the-heart","stories-of-people","story-of-a-soul","story-of-life","story-of-my-life","story-of-your-life","story-telling","storytellers","storytelling","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers","writing-philosophy","writing-process"],"id":9483,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"All throughout our lives, we selectively draw on selected shavings of life events and reflect upon them through consciousness, creating an arranged catalogue of senses, faculties, and mental activities that compose our personal life story.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["consciousness","memoir","self-realization","self-realization","self-reflection","story-of-my-life","writers-on-writing","writers","writing"],"id":13352,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"People naturally impose a narrative story-line upon their experiences. Autobiographical writing allows a person to cast their experiences into a narrative thread and organize their thoughts based not upon conjecture but with applied reason.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["autobiography","memoir","narrative","story-of-my-life","storytelling","writing-process","writing"],"id":24841,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"The Book CharmYour Story Will Never End As Long As Your Chapters Are Shared.","author":"Viola Shipman","tags":["book-clubs","book","booklovers","books","books-reading","story","story-of-my-life","storytelling"],"id":29503,"author_id":"Viola+Shipman"},{"text":"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.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["autobiography","essay-writing","life-story","memoir","memoir-writing","personal-story","story-of-my-life","storytelling","storytelling","writers-on-writing","writing","writing-philosophy","writing-process"],"id":43345,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"The principal advantage of narrative writing is that it assists us place our life experiences in a storytelling template. The act of strict examination forces us to select and organize our past. Narration provides an explanatory framework. Human beings often claim to understand events when they manage to formulate a coherent story or narrative explaining what factors caused a specific incident to occur. Stories assist the human mind to remember and make decisions based on informative stories. Narrative writing also prompts periods of intense reflection that leads to more writing that is ruminative. Contemplative actions call for us to track the conscious mind at work rendering an accounting of our weaknesses and our strengths, folly and wisdom.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["essay","essay-writing","memoir","memoir-writing","narrative","narrative-writing","personal-development","personal-growth","personal-responsibility","self-improvement","self-realization","self-reflection","story","story-of-my-life","story-of-your-life","story-telling","writing","writing-philosophy","writing-process"],"id":46175,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Our stories hold unique inspiration for one another.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice-for-daily-living","advice-for-writers","advice","advice-to-beginners","advice-to-daughter","caring-and-loving","caring-for-others","caring-heart-warming","caring-loved-one","caring","daily-life","daily-living","empathy","empowerment","encourage-yourself","encouragement-and-attitude","encouraging-and-empowering-girls","fulfilling-your-destiny","fulfilling-your-potential","giving-love","giving","humanity-advice","inspirational-life","inspirational","inspired-life","inspired","inspired-soul","inspiring-on-life","love-story","loving-kindness","loving-people","potential-for-greatness","potential","purpose-of-life","purpose","sharing-is-caring","sharing-life","sharing-pain","sharing","sharing-the-gospel","sharing-thoughts","sharing-your-gifts","story-of-my-life","storybook","storyteller","travel","uniqueness","wisdom","wise","wise-sayings","wise-words","writing-advice","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing","your-journey","your-uniqueness"],"id":61312,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"The whole of eternity is present now. We apprehend eternity through our senses and mental imagination. We can never recapture lost time. Memory allows us to taste the scintillating experience of living by recollecting our past in a series of sequential personal events and an orderly arrangement of a linked series of cultural happenings. Writing our personal story calls for us to remember the sensation of what it entails to live tactilely before losing lucidity of the mind.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["essay","essay-writing","essayist","eternity","eternity","lost-time","memoir","memories","memory","past","past-and-present","philosophy-of-life","philosphical","story","story-of-my-life","storytellers","storytelling","time"],"id":70718,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"The metaphysical poetry of our innovative life springs from the aesthetic, scenic, and systematic processes of inventiveness, the creative impulse of an active mind generating aesthetical intuition.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["identity","identity","intuition","inventiveness","memoir","memoir-writing","mind","mind-power","self-awareness","self-awareness","self-knowledge","self-knowledge","story-of-my-life","thinking","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writing"],"id":75705,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"With every passing day, we add a page to our personal story, an illustrative script that casts our character shaped by an implacable external environment and fashioned by our supple state of inwardness.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["character","character-building","character-description","character-development","character","identity","identity","life-story","memoir-writing","personal-awareness","self-awakening","self-awakening","self-awareness","self-awareness","self-discovery","self-discovery","self-realization","self-realization","story-of-my-life"],"id":82802,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}