#gh

There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon. ↗

— Hubert Selby Jr.

#city #night #reality #stars #change

In the ultimate stillness Light penetrates the whole realm; In the still illumination, There pervades pure emptiness. When I look back on the Phenomenal world, Everything is just Like a dream. ↗

— Han-shan Te-Ch'ing

#perception #reality #silence #world #dreams

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it. ↗

— Antonio Machado

#dreaming #dreams #food-for-thought #guessing #life

The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life’s purpose. ↗

— Rick Warren

#dreams

Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#spells #dreams

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#dream #dream it #enough #get #help

Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that some secrets you don't ever want to learn." Rosethorn: "All you can do is learn good to balance the bad. Learn and do all the good within your reach. Then, if you wake in a sweat, you have something to set against the dream. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#balance #briar #good #magic #nightmares

You never know. Maybe when we’re dreaming…we’re more lucid than when we are awake. ↗

— Katherine Angela Yeboah

#dreams #lucid-dreams #nightmares #sleep #dreams

I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable." "How sweet," Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. "Every woman dreams of being told that she's preferable to a dead cow. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#romance #weight #dreams

As long as I can still dream, I will dream of you. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-lightwood #letter #love #the-mortal-instruments #dreams