Best our-lives & tales Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence.”

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Book:Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale

Source: Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale

“Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like it to stick it.”

Littles Long Life Is Animal Our Lives Sticks Disaster Tales Triumph Unpredictable Unpredictable Things

Book:If Only They Could Talk: The classic memoirs of a 1930s vet

Source: If Only They Could Talk: The classic memoirs of a 1930s vet

“I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own experiences of living - will always have a Hero and a Heroine, a Fairy Godmother and a Wicked Witch.”

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Book:The Girl on the Cliff

Source: The Girl on the Cliff

“... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as we have prostrated our understanding and degraded our nature, we have exhibited virtue, wisdom, and happiness, in our words, our actions, and our lives!”

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Book:Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition

Source: Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition

“We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the darkness of our lives, and they put us into a place where you understand what it is to be human.”

Humans Forget Darkness Our Lives Myth Tales Who We Are Lest We Forget

Author:Julie Taymor

“Each of us has a creation tale - how we came into this world. And I'll add this: each of us has an uncreation tale - how our lives came apart. That which undoes us. Sooner or later, it will claim you. Mark you. More than your creation.”

World Our Lives Creation This World Claims Mark Add Tales Sooner Or Later

Book:After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story

Source: After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story

“We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.”

“Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.”

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Author:Laurie Foos

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