#iona

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

So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new world and Europe was the old," in one stroke eradicating the narratives of indigenous persons for whom America was hardly new, and any nonwhite kids whose old worlds had been in Africa or Asia, not Europe. ↗

— Tim Wise

#national-myths #racism #africa

Words can heal, Words can maim, Words can educate the brain. But when the mind transcends the writer knows, clarity follows where the pen goes ↗

— K Herz

#education

You know, when you look into the Guru's eyes you're just seeing yourself. If you see the Guru, then you're missing the point of the Guru. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

http://travelsofadam.com/2012/11/trav... Here are some quotes from my book and there are plenty more... ↗

— D.C. Gallin

#humour #inspirational #social-commentary #art

Prayer comes through grace, and grace comes through surrender. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#inadequacy-of-words #language #literature #writing #literature

Today, like any other day, is totally incomprehensible. It's good to be in a state of wonder and be alive to what's happening. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

Things seem one way, and then another way - you gotta get used to it. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art