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In Russia, drunks are our kindest people. Our kindest people are also the most drunk. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#russia #satire #satire

Defensiveness is usually someone silently screaming that they need you to value and respect them in disguise. When you look for deeper meanings behind someone’s pain you can then begin to heal not only yourself but others. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#compassion #defensiveness #emotional-pain #forgiveness #anger

How dare you - " "How dare I offer you more than you could've ever dreamed?" "How dare you waltz in here and presume - " "Presume to prescribe a future with hope and promise?" I shut my mouth abruptly, glaring at him. Then, "Are you quite finished?" "Are you?" he asked. "I am a free woman, Mr.Kensington. Grown. I can do as I wish.I may be blood kin to you, but I am not your employee." My eyes cut to Mama, but hers remained on the barn. "Regardless, you shall do as I say." I let out a sputtering, exasperated laugh. "And if I do not?" He traced the edge of his chipped china saucer. "That would be ill advised. ↗

— Lisa Tawn Bergren

#dreams

Todo o reino de Fantasia assenta-se sobre alicerces de sonhos esquecidos." A História Sem Fim (The whole kingdom of Fantasy sits upon foundations of forgotten dreams - Endless Story). ↗

— Michael Ende

#dreams

I could never really manage to tell reality and my dream world apart, for the two of them co-existed together as they slid over top of each other. ↗

— Shvaugn Craig

#reality #dreams

You don't ask questions of an attic ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#profound #telling #dreams

But I felt like I'd made a journey to the land of fairytales only to find out that the magical world was identical to the real one. Even in fairytales, the sun still burns, sand still works its way into your bikini bottoms, and the diner next door to your motel still scorches toast. ↗

— Holly Schindler

#fairytales #reality #dreams

Reach high for the stars that hidden in your soul. Dream precedes the goal ↗

— Saeed Jones

#dreams

decode........... ↗

— Robin S. Sharma

#dreams

And once the novelist has brought us to this state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied ten-fold, into which his book comes disturb us as might a dream, but a dream more lucid and more abiding than those that come to us in sleep, why then, for the space of an hour he sets free within us all the joys and sorrows in the world. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#swann-s-way #dreams