“Gratitude is what we are without a story.”

“When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.”

Paulo Coelho book Like the Flowing River

“Human beings cannot grow without feeling gratitude. Gratitude towards things is an attitude which fosters growth.”

Koichi Tohei (1920–2011) Japanese aikidoka

“In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

“Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.”

Philip Pullman (1946) English author

“Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all”

Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

“What we can learn from the good is that we will be filled with gratitude. Conversely, from the bad we learn to become a stronger person.”

Titon Rahmawan

“Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories”

Ben Okri (1959) Nigerian writer

“What are we but our stories?”

James Patterson book Sam's Letters to Jennifer

“What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor