#thing

I've spent most of my life trying to make it to a future that still hasn't happened, or avoid a past that won't let me go. I don't remember when I've ever just stopped to live in the present, to hold on to the seconds I'm in. ~ Emma ↗

— Rebecca Donovan

#rebecca-donovan #the-breathing-series #life

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#communicating #dreaming #empty #even #her

And it only hurts when I'm breathing My heart only breaks when it's beating My dreams only die when I'm dreaming So, I hold my breath--to forget ↗

— Shania Twain

#if-only-hurts-when-i-m-breathing #lyrics #dreams

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#characteristics #completely #cut #dream #friends

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#achieved #been #dreamers #great #great things

The kitchen table is where we mark milestones, divulge dreams, bury hatchets, make deals, give thanks, plan vacations, and tell jokes. It's also where children learn the lessons that families teach: manners, cooperation, communication, self-control, values. ↗

— Doris Christopher

#communication

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful. ↗

— Jerry Cantrell

#beautiful #kind #making #music #our

A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#as far as #back #children #concerned #else

Many things have been written and will be written for dream. Dreams are nothing but our unclear expectations. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#expectations #things #written #dreams

Wake me up from this dream and tell me. Things aren't as bad as they seem. ↗

— Sara Quin

#our-trees #sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #things-aren-t-as-bad-as-the-seem