Competing Quote by Alister E. McGrath

We, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story…

— Brad Pitt

Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.

— Sylvia Boorstein

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we…

— Henri Nouwen

We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

— Laura Innes

“I believe that no matter what “plot” each of our stories may follow, deep down we all want one thing. We want our lives…

— John C. Maxwell

We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story…

— Daniel Kahneman

...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.

— Holly Smale

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many…

— John Updike

“I distrust plot for two reasons: first, because our lives are largely plotless, even when you add in all our reasonable precautions and careful…

— Stephen King

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based…

— Julian Assange

“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things…

— Cheryl Strayed

When we set our hearts on knowing the truth, we assist one another in the long tender work of awakening. When the story is…

— Mark Matousek