#it

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#mythology #philosophy #spirituality #art

...all these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach writing, cartooning, engineering, to add inches to the biceps and to develop the bust ↗

— Nathanael West

#capitalism #commercialization #conformity #disillusionment #self-perception

The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries. ↗

— Mark Twain

#dreams

That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street’s burn. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#city #downtown #dream #heat #hot

The promise of a dreamer’s future will always remain greater than their present ability. God will always give them dreams that are further along than their current level of maturity. ↗

— Wayne Cordeiro

#dreams #god #maturity #dreams

Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that. ↗

— Walter Moers

#the-city-of-dreaming-books #walter-moers #dreams

What I could not support was "a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics". ↗

— Barack Obama

#war #dreams

Privilegiul de a fi oricine își arată și cealaltă față - a presiunii de a fi ca toată lumea și prin urmare - nimeni. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#libertate #personalitate #sine #dreams

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. ↗

— Jesse Owens

#awful #come #dedication #determination #effort

Dreams and needs tear down fortress of impossibility. ↗

— Toba Beta

#fortress-of-impossibility #need #dreams