#cho

Is not our capacity to choose, to chase, to dream of becoming other than we are, more powerful then the patterns of the stars? ↗

— Katherine Marsh

#fate #insperation #dreams

This brings us to a further complication: if what we experience as ‘reality’ is structured by fantasy and if fantasy serves as a screen that protects us from being directly overwhelmed by the raw Real then reality itself can function as an escape from the Real. In the opposition between dream and reality fantasy is at the side of reality and it is in dreams that we encounter the traumatic Real – it is not that dreams are for those who cannot endure reality reality itself is for those who cannot endure the Real that announces itself in their dreams. ↗

— Slavoj Žížek

#dreams

Tell me what's going on here. Why can I hear your voice inside my head and why did you say you came to school for me?" "I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#school

We’ll be back!” he snarled. It was really Ari’s voice. Boy, you just can’t kill people like you used to,” said Fang ↗

— James Patterson

#school

Boy, you just can't kill people like you used to, ↗

— James Patterson

#school

Are you ready to take the ACT on Saturday?" my father asked. Did chickens enjoy being put on trucks labeled KFC? "Sure. ↗

— Katie McGarry

#father

Politics bores you?" Bronsen said. Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven't tried to be fascinated. But careful and meticulous research has suggested the hypothesis that all politicians are liars, fools, and tricksters, and I have as yet come across no evidence to the contrary. They can do great damage, and rarely any good. It is the job of the sensible man to try and protect civilization from their depradations. ↗

— Iain Pears

#damage #deceit #depradation #lies #politicians

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#schooling #university #education

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#goodness #intelligence #kindness #scholarship #education

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768) ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#encouragement #instruction #learning #school #education