“The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.”

“we become the stories we tell ourselves”

“The past is just a story we tell ourselves.”

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”

“Many of the stories economists tell take the form of models—for whatever else they are, economic models are stories about how the world works.”

“… What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.”

“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves…”

“All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.”

“The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.”