"The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world."

-- Vikram Chandra

#Stories Quotes #World Quotes

“I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.”
“I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.”
“Follow the Golden Rule. Â Be kind to your neighbors, love them as much as you would love yourself, do unto others....”
“Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.”
“Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.”
“Above all do not give yourself airs. Breaking the moment of past habits is the challenge here: In the life of the spirit you are always at the beginning.”
“My only wish isto transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the hereafter into students of the world, Christians who, by their own procession and admission, are half animal, half angel into persons, into whole persons.”
“Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage.”

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