#dre

Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain. ↗

— Frances Moore Lappé

#eco-mind #hope #dreams

Through the wind and the rain She stands hard as a stone In a world that she can't rise above But her dreams give her wings And she flies to a place where she's loved Concrete angel ↗

— Martina McBride

#dreams

Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright. ↗

— Vachel Lindsay

#dreams

If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren. ↗

— David Dewhurst

#change #children #going #grandchildren #operates

The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from. ↗

— Moss Hart

#new-york-city #success #dreams

I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#aunt #childless #children #friends #i

It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant attention these days. As a result, a great deal escapes us and we no longer understand our own actions. So it remains important and salutary to speak not only of the rational and easily understood, but also of enigmatic things: the irrational and the ambiguous. To speak both privately and publicly. ↗

— Mary Zimmerman

#dreams

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#best way #children #distresses #insist #lives

If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury") ↗

— Audre Lorde

#dreams

Almost all arguments for skepticism make reference to seemingly ridiculous possibilities—we are being deceived by an evil demon, life is just a dream, we are brains in vats. You might propose psychoanalysis, rather than philosophical reflection, for anyone who worries about these possibilities. ↗

— Richard Feldman

#dreams