"Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter, and love. The wealthy could not buy these things. On the contrary, they were for the taking."

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Source : Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Mark Helprin

#Love Quotes #Laughter Quotes #Lakes Quotes

“Love is only a dance. I'll try to apply myself And teach my heart how to sing. I'll go my way by myself Like a bird on the wing I'll face the unknown, I'll build a world of my own; No one knows better than I myself I'm by myself alone.”

Source : "Dancing in the dark".
“So you play your albums and you smoke your pot And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot Oh, but still you're aching for the things you haven't got, What went wrong? And if you can't understand why your world is so dead And why you've got to keep in style and feed your head Well, you're twenty one and still you mother makes your bed And that's too long.”
“Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.”
“Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.”

Source : "Juergen Klinsmann interview". www.cnn.com. March 22, 2006.
“I came, then, to serve my Church first of all, and the whole world, that is, every person I find along my way. I serve and I will give of myself unto death so that there will be no distance between speaking and doing, so that the people will never again say, 'there is a chasm between us and the leaders' and word spread that the Church is far from her people. I know very well that our people are good and that they want from us today to go to them, to seek them out wherever they are, to search out the lost and return them joyfully to the fold. They hunger and thirst for the Word of God.”
“No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.”
“A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.”

Source : Dorothea Lynde Dix (1845). “Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States”, p.11
“Do that which serves your cause, not that which serves your rage.”

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