Tell Me a Story Quotes

“Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.”
― Daniel Taylor, Tell Me a Story: The Life-Shaping Power of Our Stories

“Stories make it possible for us to be human.”
― Daniel Taylor, The healing power of stories: Creating yourself through the stories of your life

“You are your stories. You are the product of all the stories you have heard and lived—and of many that you have never heard. They have shaped how you see yourself, the world, and your place in it.”
― Daniel Taylor, Tell Me a Story: The Life-Shaping Power of Our Stories

“We are all wedded to our stories. It doesn't mean we are each hermetically sealed in our own little worlds, impervious to the influence of others. It does mean the only way to avoid such isolation is to listen, compassionately, to the stories of others.”
― Daniel Taylor, Tell Me a Story: The Life-Shaping Power of Our Stories

“It reinforced my sense of living in a coherent universe, of belonging to something important that stretched over time, of being a link in a chain - indebted to many in the past, mostly unknown to me, and responsible to many in the future, who likewise will not know who I was.”
― Daniel Taylor, Tell Me a Story: The Life-Shaping Power of Our Stories