#on

I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to. (Danny North/Silverman/Stone) ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#the-lost-gate #dreams

Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#education

Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just. ↗

— Bernard of Clairvaux

#justice #anger

There's wall of agony between dreams and reality. ↗

— Toba Beta

#reality #wall-of-agony #dreams

Who knows where we go when we die? And who's to say that the places we visit in our dreams aren't real? What's your heaven? Where would you dream? Is every ending just another beginning? This one is. ↗

— Tood Dezago and Mike Wieringo

#dreams

She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient. ↗

— Mavis Gallant

#montreal #patience #winter #dreams

No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That's who I was pretending to be a minute ago - Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. - Ben ↗

— Ron Koertge

#film-star #inspiration #robert-mitchum #teen #ya

Yet 'Reality' is just whatever illusion we believe in ↗

— Fola

#dreams #illusion #inspirational #reality #dreams

Father is a school manqué ... He always wanted to write books. But he became rich instead, so is not allowed. ↗

— Iain Pears

#books #wealth #wishes #writing #dreams

Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#dreams