#men

Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true. ↗

— James Patterson

#dreams

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#imagination #lovers #madmen #reason #dreams

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#management-and-leadership #education

I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery" - Ahlam (Chaos of the Senses) ↗

— Ahlam Mosteghanemi

#freedom-of-choice #women #women-s-strength #women-writers #dreams

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#apocatastasis #pronounciation #re-establishment #renovation #restoration

Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what they'd like to grow there instead. I've witnessed this with the former hockey player who takes his son out to skate before he can even walk. Or in the mother who gave up her ballet dreams when she married, but now scrapes her daughter's hair into a bun and watched from the wings of the stage. We are not, as you'd expect, orchestrating their lives; we are not even trying for a second chance. We are hoping that if this one thing takes root, it might take up enough light and space to keep something else from developing in our children: the disappointment we've already lived. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#disappointment #dream #dreams

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated. ↗

— Saddam Hussein

#female-liberation #feminism #iraq #islam #women

The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid ecstasy of reverie. She communicated her own enthusiasm to the girl, and kept her mind occupied with dreams, faery-fervid, of uncharted seas of glory on which her galleon might sail, undiscovered countries of spice and sweetness, Eldorado and Utopia and the City of God. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#love #sensual #women #beauty

We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#individuality #opposites #uniqueness #honor

The mermaid is an archetypal image that represents a woman who is at ease in the great waters of life, the waters of emotion and sexuality. She shows us how to embrace our instinctive sexuality and sensuality so that we can affirm the essence of our feminine nature, the wisdom of our bodies, and the playfulness of our spirits. She symbolizes our connection with our deepest instinctive feelings, our wild and untamed animal nature that exists below the surface of outward personalities. She is able to respond to her mysterious sexual impulses without abandoning her more human, conscious side. What happened to the girls who dreamed of being mermaids? ↗

— Anita Johnston

#femininity #mermaids #self-empowerment #wisdom #dreams