#am

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#cannot #cured #democracy #engine #envy

When she remembers to look at herself in a spiritual light, she sees the deep capacity for love this pain has brought her. The realization fills her with wonder. Now she can rise in the morning and greet the new day with eagerness and grace. ↗

— Harold Kemp

#grace #love #pain #spiritual-dreaming #wonder

There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed. ↗

— Washington Irving

#fantasy #writing #dreams

In life, we have secrets, things we regret, dreams we can’t reach and a love that we will never forget. ↗

— ReviAndari Azmi

#dreams

I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what is inexpressible, our dreams of otherness, of more. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#religion #dreams

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them. ↗

— Anthony Trollopel

#dreams #hate #love #novelist #sleep

America is too great for small dreams. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#dreams

Much that is terrible we do not know. Much that is beautiful we shall still discover. Let's sail till we come to the edge. ↗

— Thomas M. Disch

#beauty

A friend told me that one day he and I would be rich and famous. I told him that I'd trade my half of the fame, for his half of the money. ↗