Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've never met. We have stories we love to tell and stories we have never told anyone. The extent to which others know us is determined by the stories we choose to share. We extend a deep trust to someone when we say, "I'm going to tell you something I've never told anyone." Sharing stories creates trust because through stories we come to a recognition of how much we have in common.
Julius LesterBeing a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.
Julius LesterThe young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.
Julius LesterThe failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.
Julius Lester