Life Quote by Mandy Aftel

We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives - things we've learnt since childhood…

— Derren Brown

I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative that makes…

— Sam Keen

We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating ourselves at…

— Peter Brooks

Our lives are a long series of acquiring and then sloughing narratives.

— Melissa Febos

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

— Katherine Center

Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our…

— Cameron Dokey

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

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

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

— Steven Erikson

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves

— Anonymous

I discovered that some things are written for us. It's not that we can't change our ancestral bearings, or that the path or purpose…

— Maya Tiwari

As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose

— Nateman