#dreams

I like to set my dreams high. That way, even if I only make it half way there, it's still pretty darned good. ↗

Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital principle would be! And how many dreams the leftward oriented shell, or one that did not conform to the rotation of its species, would inspire! ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#shells #spirals #dreams

All that you have been is but a small part, a very mere bit of the potential of your life. ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#inspirational #life #potential #inspirational

I wanted to find a nice quiet spot, go to sleep, and dream about kittens. ↗

— John Corwin

#kittens #sleep #dreams

I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and a walking stick and a heart so big it won't let him stop thinking he can change the world by writing down things in a book no one will ever read. ↗

— Rodman Philbrick

#book #dreams #hero #heroes #old-man

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

#born #consciousness #desired #desires #dreams

Dreams are nervy things—all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die. ↗

— Lloyd Jones

#dreams

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#dreams #even #good #good deed #lost

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#fact #only #pigmentation

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans. ↗