"Service rendered as a gift or love-offering to Life: work that is engaged in, not for self or for profit, but as an act of love and service, these bring the doer a harvest of blessings. . . . When we serve and when we give, we open ourselves to receive life's richest blessings, its greatest prizes, and its most enduring lessons."

-- Henry Thomas Hamblin

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“Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!”
“Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.”
“I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it.Â However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us.Â It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.”
“Sunshine of late afternoon-- On the glass tray a glass pitcher, the tumbler turned down, by which a key is lying--And the immaculate white bed”
“I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.89, LSU Press
“Pour the bulk of your time into action, not deciding. The state of indecision is a major time waster. Don't spend more than 60 seconds in that state if you can avoid it. Make a firm, immediate decision, and move from uncertainty to certainty to action. Let the world tell you when you're wrong, and you'll soon build enough experience to make accurate, intelligent decisions.”
“Every decoding is another encoding.”

Source : David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.238, Penguin

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