"They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven."

-- Louisa May Alcott

#Heart Quotes #Giving Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“Lies About Love We are all liars, because The truth of yesterday becomes a lie tomorrow, Whereas letters are fixed, and we live by the letter of truth. The love I feel for my friend, this year, is different from the love I felt last year. If it were not so, it would be a lie. Yet we reiterate love! love! love! as if it were a coin with fixed value instead of a flower that dies, and opens a different bud.”
“The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories â€” or you can use it to paint dreams.”
“Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.”
“What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.”
“On My First Driving Lesson â€œFirst things first: A car has five gears. What is that smell?â€¦Okay, first thing before that first thing: Farting in a car thatâ€™s not moving makes you an asshole.”
“Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs”, p.243, Random House
“I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heat that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John-only somewhat bewildered.”
“I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!”

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