#cal

Locavore" may have been the 2007 New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year, but there's already been a word for those whose diets are restricted to seasonal items grown in their immediate area: That word is "peasant. ↗

— Brett Martin

#locavore #diet

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#dreams

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#apocatastasis #pronounciation #re-establishment #renovation #restoration

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#dreams #inspirational #philosophical #reality #dreams

Why did we divorce? I guess you could say we had trouble synchronizing. You know that carnival ride where two cages swing in opposite directions, going higher and higher until they go over the top? That was us. We passed each other all the time, but we never actually stopped in the same place until it was time to get off the ride. ↗

— Diane Hammond

#divorce #imagery #true-artistry #dreams

Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#desire #dreams #fulfillment #dreams

There are some things you never say good-bye to ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#world-war- #dreams

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#musical #victor-hugo #dreams

We don’t sleep to sleep, dammit, any more than we eat to eat . We sleep to dream. We’re amphibians. We live in two elements and we need both." Edward Nesbit ↗

— Lindsay Clarke

#life-philosophy #lindsay-clarke #sleep #the-chymical-wedding #dreams

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor. ↗

— Voltaire

#comfort