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“I am a transformed human being…these young people have given me hope.”

“It was a fairly remarkable thing to watch, the care each student took with the story that had been entrusted to her or him.”

“There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”

“The most direct application of imagination for good that I’ve ever seen”

“This is a deceptively simple yet extraordinarily powerful tool to build empathy and close bonds between individuals.”

“When you receive a story and recite your own, you feel like you gave part of yourself away, but also got a part of someone else too.”

 “It was so important to him,” Johnny said afterward. “And now it was kind of my story, too. So it was really important to me to get it right.”

“The children almost broken by this world become the adults most likely to change it.”

“Before I did a story exchange I felt like I was in a room full of strangers — some of them acquaintances, a few of them friends. After the exchange I felt as though I truly knew — and deeply loved — everyone in the room.”

“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.”

“You have created something truly transformative.”

“Gives me — as someone who has had a hard time finding reasons to be optimistic about the future in the Middle East — a glimmer of hope.” 

“Narrative 4 allowed me to understand in a much deeper way the story I had been carrying inside me for twenty-five years. In the listening, I received my own story from the outside-in through the empathetic voice of another. It was no longer my story but a shared story.”

“Every story has a place, even the stories we don’t like.”

“By listening to each others’ stories…we can break down the walls that separate us into different cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, classes, and nationalities.”

“Truth is not something that is just revealed, it is also created.”

“Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.”

“One of the most profound experiences of my life.” 

“The whole idea behind it is that the one true democracy we have is storytelling. It goes across borders, boundaries, genders, rich, poor— everything has a story to tell.”

“This method is a stay against abstraction: By using our words, our very breath, to tell each other’s stories, we not only acknowledge but honor our common humanity.”

“Storytelling is a mirror into our shared humanity.”