Alice Walker Quotes

I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

I know people heal by being able to tell the story - the whole story.

As much as it's been difficult to tell my story over and over again, it has been the best thing that has ever happened to me.

Filmmaking is so much about catharsis anyway. It's therapeutic.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

To me, healing means you have to recognize there is a wound and you try to understand what the sources of the wound are, which means you try to tell a story about how it came to be. So you have to engage in some historical interpretation.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

Tell your story because your story will heal you and it will heal someone else.

I went through some stuff. And I got very depressed at times. It was like a marriage breaking up suddenly, violently, quickly. And I was just trying to figure out what happened. When we started putting this tour together, I started to feel better almost immediately. And then this there is this, there is almost no better antidote to what I"ve just been through than to do this every night.

If I can forgive the attachment in myself and open to the vulnerability that's underneath it, then rather than fixating on another person to satisfy my need, I'm actually going right to where the needs come from and able to bring a real healing.

When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed.

I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.

Often when someone comes to you and wants to vent, it's so tempting to start giving advice. But if you allow the person just to let the feelings out, and then at another time come back with advice or comments, that person would experience a deeper healing.

Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within.

I was a teenager, and I went to see the Superman movie, and up to the point I walked into that movie, I was a kid with no direction and no real purpose and no strong parental figures, and kind of aimless. I walked out of that movie knowing that whatever my life was going to be from then on, it had to have something to do with Superman, because something touched me emotionally with Christopher Reeve's performance.

Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.

When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.

Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.

Well, my opinion is that real change occurs through deep interpersonal experiences. Others will also say deep spiritual experiences.

You can write a whole fiction, and you're talking to people who have gone through that, in real life. But the truth of it is that when you're talking to those people, you don't care about your movie anymore. You just want to hear about what they have gone through. You want all of the details. It's amazing.

Stories are medicine.

It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.