#amin

My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska. ↗

— Standing Bear

#first #forefathers #green #had #hills

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#boots #fault #feet #his #man

Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable. ↗

— Rand Beers

#cautious #dreaming #extreme #iraq #scenarios

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring. ↗

— Julien Benda

#concerning #contrary #could #even #examination

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#bear #because #examination #find #justify

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#am #any #deeply #fear #forgo

The examined life is no picnic. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#life #picnic

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#dreaming #history #often #poorly #shown

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