“So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 115.
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Endless Love (1981).
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“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”
“I the Mountain take,
Bearing my aged Father on my Back.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), II
Context: Yes, I dreamed a dream, my dream of the third of November. They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth? If once one has recognized the truth and seen it, you know that it is the truth and that there is no other and there cannot be, whether you are asleep or awake. Let it be a dream, so be it, but that real life of which you make so much I had meant to extinguish by suicide, and my dream, my dream — oh, it revealed to me a different life, renewed, grand and full of power!
The Reason of Church Government (1641), Book II, Introduction
“I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
BBC radio interview (December 13, 2006)
2007, 2008