Believe Quote by Liz Curtis Higgs

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

— Terry Pratchett

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

— Derrick Jensen

We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is…

— Ramona Koval

We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here,…

— Daniel Taylor

“The Holy Scriptures are story-shaped. Reality is story-shaped. The world is story-shaped. Our lives are story-shaped. 'I had always,' wrote G.K. Chesterton in accounting…

— Eugene H. Peterson

Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we give.

— Anonymous

“Stories are how we think. They are how we make meaning of life. Call them schemas, scripts, mental maps, ideas, metaphors, or narratives. Stories…

— Jeroninio Almeida

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

There are mythic patterns under all of our lives. Each one of us, often unbeknownst to ourselves, is engaged in a drama of soul…

— Deena Metzger

“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around. Stories exist independently of their players. If you know…

— Terry Pratchett

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our…

— Helen Dunmore

A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as…

— Marshall Ganz