Storytelling Quote by Philippa Perry

In constructing our narratives, we identify which particular events or experiences were formative or transformative. In telling our stories, we also claim some authority…

— Peg O'Connor

Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that…

— M. John Harrison

By nature, human beings search for ways to make sense and meaning out of their lives and their world. One way that we make…

— Susan Campbell Bartoletti

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

— Christina Baldwin

“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

“Narratives are universally used for mediating emotional experiences. The purpose of aesthetic objects has been defined, in part, as 'the awakening, intensifying, or maintaining…

— Mikkel Wallentin Arndis Simonsen Andreas Hojlund Nielsen

“Our dreams and stories may contain implicit aspects of our lives even without our awareness. In fact, storytelling may be a primary way in…

— Daniel J. Siegel

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

Our stories arise from our hearts and our souls. In this sense, telling our stories becomes a sacred gesture, opening a clear way to…

— Susan Wittig Albert

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

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

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

“Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition of narrative…

— Jacqui Stedmon