#insp

And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . . ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#dreams

There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. ↗

— Douglas Everett

#dreams #inspirational #dreams

This innocence Is brilliant I hope that it will stay This moment Is perfect Please don't go away I need you now And I'll hold on to it Don't you let it pass you by ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#innocence

Life is a journey through time, filled with may choices; each of us will experience life in our own special way. So when the days come that are filled with frustration and unexpected responsibilities, remember to believe in yourself and all you want your life to be, because the challenges and changes will only help you to find the dreams that you know are meant to come true for you. ↗

— Deanna Beisser

#change

Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#dreams

I want people to come away from my book with questions," she says. "Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#virtue

Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#justice

When I reach the place of my dreams, I will thank my failures and tears. They too, kept me going. ↗

— Dodinsky

#dreams

Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it. In using Escape in this way the critics have chosen the wrong word, and, what is more, they are confusing, not always by sincere error, the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter. just so a Party-spokesman might have labeled departure from the misery of the Fuhrer's or any other Reich and even criticism of it as treachery .... Not only do they confound the escape of the prisoner with the flight of the deserter; but they would seem to prefer the acquiescence of the "quisling" to the resistance of the patriot. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#fantasy #inspirational #resistance

Perhaps it is music that will save the world. ↗

— Shinichi Suzuki

#music #save-the-world #education