#am

It had a crisp paper jacket, unlike the paper-covered library books I was used to, and the way the pages parted, I could tell I was the first to open it ... I valued that half-dream state of being lost in a book so much that I limited the number of pages I let myself read each day in order to put off the inevitable end, my banishment from that world. I still do this. ↗

— Allison Hoover Bartlett

#dreams

I can only be who I am. ↗

— Enya

#i #i am #i can #only #who

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment. ↗

— Brian Eno

#believe #better #camp #either #i

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance. ↗

— John Entwistle

#book #i #i am #importance #place

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen. ↗

— Enya

#appear #because #i #i am #music

All of us at one point end face up in a ditch, but only a few will choose to look up at the stars and dream. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#dreams #inspiration #life-lessons #motivation #purpose

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. ↗

— Mark Twain

#children #contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#dream world #face #face reality #into #live

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#been #find #miss #more #wonderful

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#ecosystems #every #fundamental #isolated #learning