Belief Quote by Tara Brach

Many people don’t realize the extent to which stories influence our behavior and even shape our culture. Think about how Bible stories teach the…

— Lawrence Shapiro

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the…

— Adam Johnson

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it…

— Harvey Cox

Stories are like genies...They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing.…

— Francesca Lia Block

The desire for story is very, very deep in human beings. We are the only creature in the world that does this; we are…

— Salman Rushdie

“Story is the mechanism by which we live, express, understand, and evolve. Story is more than just equipment for living — it’s life itself.…

— Derek Rydall

“Control what people believe, and you control what they do. Who they are. The world is only the aggregate of human perception. Stories are…

— Mike Carey

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

There are so many different narrative traditions across the world, and each of those traditions has evolved dramatically over time. Once I understood that,…

— Ken Liu

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

As with any other great force of nature, there is both glory and danger in the stories we tell ourselves. Some are toxic and…

— Dawna Markova

The stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential.

— Jonah Sachs