Stories We Tell Quotes

28 Stories We Tell quotes by 27 unique authors

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer… — Tate Taylor
History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or… — Grace Lee Boggs
Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe? — Scott Turow
Patti Callahan Henry seamlessly combines mystery, family love, and personal journey all in one engrossing tale. From the intriguing beginning to the touching ending, The… — Diane Chamberlain
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. — Niall Williams
We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell… — Niall Williams
Stories, we all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose ourselves in them.… — James Orbinski
Patti Callahan Henry’s THE STORIES WE TELL is a lyrical exploration of love and longing, secrets and suspicion, family and friendship, all told with the… — Mary Kay Andrews
Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds of… — Mary Robinson
Not only does art imitate life but life imitates art. Perhaps we not only learn about life from stories, perhaps we make our lives through… — Ramona Koval
We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves. — Tony Robbins
We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface… — Philippa Perry
THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is jagged with class… — Joshilyn Jackson
The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I… — Jessica Jackley
Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone. — John Slattery
As with any other great force of nature, there is both glory and danger in the stories we tell ourselves. Some are toxic and keep… — Dawna Markova
STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that… — A. O. Scott
The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game. — Jonathan Sacks
All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to… — Nora Raleigh Baskin
The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we… — Rebecca Solnit
...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us. — Rabih Alameddine
we become the stories we tell ourselves — Michael Cunningham
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in… — Sharon Salzberg
We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going. — Lauren Oliver
In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we… — Shekhar Kapur

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