"The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others."

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Source : Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur [Illustrated]”, p.23, XinXii

Lew Wallace

#Love Is Quotes #Tests Quotes #Action Quotes

“I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.”
“If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.”

Source : Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.420, Simon and Schuster
“Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death”
“In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.”
“In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.”
“A fact was the hard outer cover of meaning, and meaning was the soft living stuff inside a fact. Fact and meaning were the driving cogs of living. If the gear of fact drove the gear of meaning, then they revolved in opposite directions, but put the gear of fantasy between the two and they both revolved in the same direction. Fantasy was and is important; it leads to heaven knows where, but follow it and see. Sometimes it pays off.”
“When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!”
“Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain;â€” These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain. Perhaps with ancient heathen shapes, Old faded gods, this brain is full; Who, for their most unholy rites, Have chosen a dead poet's skull...”

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