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Fear tells you what can’t be done

courage tells you what can be done
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. . .because we had survivedsisters and brothers, daughters and sons,we discovered bones that rosefrom the dark earth and sangas white birds in the treesBecause the story of our lifebecomes our lifeBecause each of us tells the same storybut tells it differentlyand none of us tells it the same way twice . . (from, Why We Tell Stories)

Lisel Mueller, The Private Life: Poems
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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Blaise Pascal
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God tells you where to look

love tells you what to see.
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Intelligence tells you where to look

wisdom tells you what to see.
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The telling and the hearing of a story is not a simple act. The one who tells must reach down into deeper layers of the self, reviving old feelings, reviewing the past. Whatever is retrieved is reworked into a new form, one that narrates events and gives the listener a path through these events that leads to some fragment of wisdom. The one who hears takes the story in, even to a place not visible or conscious to the mind, yet there. In this inner place a story from another life suffers a subtle change. As it enters the memory of the listener it is augmented by reflection, by other memories, and even the body hearing and responding in the moment of the telling. By such transmissions, consciousness is woven.

Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
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Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what.

Margot Livesey, The House on Fortune Street
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And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through and through. I might as well tell you since it won’t be of any help to you. Even my admission can very well be a lie because there is dissimulation only if one tells the truth, only if one tells that one is telling the truth), still the text will remain indefinitely open, cryptic and parodying.

Jacques Derrida, Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Eperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche
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Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

Leo Buscaglia
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