#ali

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith. ↗

— Aberjhani

#dreams #faith #inspiration #inspirational #metaphysics

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

#escapism #first-sentence #opening-lines #reality #sanity

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation? ↗

— George Carlin

#kill

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#reading #reality #escape

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band. ↗

— Paul Stanley

#band #big #big enough #enough #great

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth. ↗

— Aberjhani

#dignity #faith #haiku #heaven #human-mortality

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#night

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ↗

— Mae West

#sexuality #virtue #virtue

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#quality #virtue #virtue

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#learning #specialization #knowledge