“All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing:”
Source: Beautiful Ruins
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“Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?”
Source: Ordinary Heroes
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“We are the Edema Ruh, and the thing we value most every man possesses. You can tell us your story.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)
On the Epic of Evolution in "Forum : Epic, Story, Narrative : A Cosmogen Dialogue" in Epic of Evolution Quarterly (Fall 1998) http://www.thegreatstory.org/EpicStoryNarrative.pdf, p. 12
Context: We do have something of a story here, a true story, that we can work with religiously should we elect to do so. … There are clearly all sorts of flavors right now, just as there were when … Christianity was being put together, which took centuries to get the core in place and has been under revision ever since. Let's keep talking!