{"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":"We each possess the capacity for self-development. We also possess the capacity for self-destruction. The path that we chose to take – to pursue lightness or darkness – is the story that we take to our graves.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["life-story","personal-growth","self-destruction","self-destructive","self-determination","self-determination","self-development","self-development","story-of-your-life"],"id":33168,"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":"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.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["memoir","memoir-writing","memoirs","memories","narrative","narrative-writing","non-fiction","non-fiction-books","personal-story","self-discovery","self-discovery","self-examination","self-exploration","story-of-my-life","story-of-your-life","storytelling","writers","writers-on-writing","writers","writing","writing-process","writing"],"id":142081,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"The story of life depends on how well you live your life.","author":"Hockson Floin","tags":["life","story","story-of-my-life","story-of-your-life","travel"],"id":170480,"author_id":"Hockson+Floin"},{"text":"Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with other people a melody of rudimentary experiences and respond to a stabilizing tune strung together with a shared ethos. We walk in parallel strides with our brethren seeking out equivalent affirmations of our being. We long to shout out to the world that we once walked this earth; we seek to leave in our wake traces of our pithy habitation. Our unfilled longing propels us into committing senseless acts of self-sabotage and then we desperately seek redemption from our slippery selves by building monuments to the human spirit. We employ a bewildering blend of conscious and unconscious materials to construct synoptic testaments to our temporal existence. We labor on the canvas of our choosing to scrawl our inimitable mark, fanatically toiling to escape a sentence of total obliteration along with our impending mortality.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["art","artist","artists","creativity","memoir","memoir-writing","memories","memories","philosophy-of-life","stories","story-of-a-soul","story-of-life","story-of-my-life","story-of-your-life","story-telling","storytelling","writers","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers-on-writing-books","writers-on-writing-life","writing","writing-philosophy","writing-process"],"id":189713,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness; we take with us into the Ring of Time the people whom we crossed paths with in our earthly sojourn.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["essayist","memoir","memoir-writing","personal-essay","story-of-a-soul","story-of-life","story-of-my-life","story-of-your-life","storytelling","storytelling","writers","writers-on-writing","writers-on-writing-books-writing","writers","writing-philosophy","writing-process","writing"],"id":190663,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Tell the story of your life with grace and candor. Sharing your wisdom helps others and delivers deep satisfaction.","author":"Amy Leigh Mercree","tags":["inspirational","joyful-living","joyful-living-101","life","about-life","of-the-day","of-the-week","twitter","share-wisdom","story-of-your-life","wisdom"],"id":193237,"author_id":"Amy+Leigh+Mercree"},{"text":"Talking to oneself is a recognized means to learn, in fact, self-speak may be the seed concept behind human consciousness. Private conversation that we hold with ourselves might represent the preeminent means to provoke the speaker into thinking (a form of cognitive auto-stimulation), modify behavior, and perhaps even amend the functional architecture of the plastic human brain. Writing out our private talks with oneself enables a person to “see” what they think, a process that invites reflection, ongoing thoughtful discourse with the self, and refinement of our thinking patterns and beliefs. Internal sotto voice conversations with our private-self provide several advantages, but most people find it difficult to maintain self-speak for an extended period. Internal dialogue must compete with external distractions. Writing allows a person to resume a personal dialogue where they left off before interrupted by outside stimuli. A written disquisition also provides a permanent record that a person can examine, amend, supplement, update, or reject.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["dialogue","distractions","memoir","memoir-writing","personal-development","personal-growth","self-determination","self-discovery","self-realization","story-of-my-life","story-of-your-life","talking","talking-to-yourself","writing","writing-advice","writing-craft","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing-process"],"id":215301,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and contradictory conceptions that motivate us, and delve larger truths out of variable and erratic elements of human nature.","author":"Kilroy J. 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