The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in. —Harold Goddard
If you don’t know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don’t know the stories you may be lost in life. —Siberian Elder
Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale of all. —Hans Christian Andersen
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but no societies that did not tell stories. —Ursula K. LeGuin
If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
—Barry Lopez, in Crow and Weasel
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless because they cannot think new thoughts. —Salman Rushdie
More Quotes Below!God made man because he loves stories. —Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlev (as quoted by Steve Sanfield)
If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep living the same sad small life. —Jean Houston