"I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on, poor heart, unceasingly; And thou shalt find thy dream to be A truth and noonday light to thee."

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Source : "Life a Duty". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

Ellen Sturgis Hooper

#Dream Quotes #Lying Quotes #Heart Quotes

“You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing.”
“In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.”

Source : Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.
“I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.”
“... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.”
“My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.”
“One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.”
“The most important moments rarely come at a convenient time”
“If you listen to two people who are arguing about something, and they each of them have passionate faith that they're right, but they believe different things---they belong to different religions, different faiths, there is nothing they can do to settle their disagreement short of shooting each other, which is what they very often actually do.”

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