"You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have."

-- Charles Baxter

#Thinking Quotes #Anecdotes Quotes #Stories Quotes

“The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.”

Source : Arianna Huffington (2006). “On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life”, p.123, Hachette UK
“When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.”

Source : David Elkind (1981). “The hurried child: growing up too fast too soon”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
“There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.”
“My friends are a crayola box. They highlight different colors of my being, representing different aspects of my personalty, I've noticed.”
“We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.”
“It's a funny place, this world. Hate has rights. Love has none.”
“Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.”

Source : John Selden, Samuel Weller Singer, Edward FitzGerald (1860). “Table Talk: With a Biographical Pref. and Notes”, p.183
“There's a beauty in work and I love it, all different kinds of work. That's what I consider it. Rock is my job, and that's my work. And I work my ***** off, you know.”

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