Ability Quote by Daniel Taylor

When you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose.

— Deepak Chopra

The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how…

— Robin Marantz Henig

“One danger is, we might hurry through life, enduring event after event, in order to build our list of experiences. Our stock of stories.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Every morning brings us news of the globe, and yet we are poor in noteworthy stories. This is because no event comes to us…

— Walter Benjamin

We get excited by ideas, and we're more excited by being surprised by ideas than we are in dictating the course of events. We've…

— Joe Russo

“We humans are the victims of an asymmetry in the perception of random events. We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

— Holly Smale

When awareness expands, events that seem random actually aren't. A larger purpose is trying to unfold through you. When you become aware of that…

— Deepak Chopra

Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many…

— Stephen Jay Gould

There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I find that the more I depend on real life, the less interesting the story is. It's much more common for me to take…

— Sarah Dessen

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

— Linda Vester