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We compose our life in stories we tell ourselves — John Geddes

In the absence of facts ... we tell ourselves stories. — Noah Hawley

Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone. — John Slattery

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe? — Scott Turow

We choose perfumes for ourselves so we can tell the stories inside of us - the ones that we can't possibly put into words. — C. JoyBell C.

But we all live there, I thought to myself, in the imaginary stories we tell ourselves about our lives. — Siri Hustvedt

Sometimes the stories we tell ourselves obscure our truths. — Ken Liu

We all tell stories
to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits. — Shannon Donnelly

In the stories we tell ourselves, we tell ourselves. — Michael Martone

Telling stories to make himself into something that he isn't. We all do it. We all tell stories to make ourselves look better. — Richard House

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent. — David Remnick

That's all beliefs are; stories we tell ourselves to stop being afraid. Beliefs have very little to do with the truth. — Adrian Walker

We tell ourselves there are reasons for the things that happen, but we are just telling ourselves stories. We make them up. They don't mean anything — Nicola Yoon

Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies. — Michael Bassey Johnson

We are the stories we tell about ourselves. But when those stories are lies, we are the most surprised of all. — Brent Weeks

People fall so in love with their pain, they can't leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves. — Chuck Palahniuk

Psychologically, our reality derives from the stories we tell ourselves, at least the ones we believe. — Matthew D. Lieberman

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. — Ales Kot

Nothing matters more than the stories we tell ourselves to explain the world. — Mike Carey

We tell ourselves zombie stories to remind us we shouldn't live beyond the natural boundaries of life - or seek a third stage of life in this world. — Stephen Graham Jones

I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do]. — Annie Leonard

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves. — Faith Prince

When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy. — Parul Sehgal

Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble. — Alan Rickman

Our lives are stories we tell ourselves. — Nancy Mairs

we become the stories we tell ourselves — Michael Cunningham

We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going. — Lauren Oliver

Stories help shape the way we see ourselves in the world. They help tell us who we can be and what we can achieve. — Nicola Yoon

I find that unless we are very, very careful there can be a difference between who we are and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. I — Daniel Abraham

We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves. — Tony Robbins

The biggest battle in life is to change the negative stories we tell ourselves — Melanie Greenberg

How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should super-cede them. — Stephanie Danler

it's the stories we tell ourselves that cause all the problems. If you look reality straight in the eye, you end up a lot less confused. — Nell Zink

And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories. — Erica Lorraine Scheidt

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared. — Jim Crace

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves. — David Strathairn

Imagination only fails us in the end, when the stories we tell ourselves have to stop. — Joy Williams

Our lives follow the stories we tell ourselves. — Gina Greenlee