The center of every man's existence is a dream.
Interpretation
Dreams are central to human existence and motivation.
This quote highlights the fundamental role of dreams in shaping an individual's life and purpose. A dream represents not only aspirations and ambitions but also serves as the driving force behind actions and decisions, allowing individuals to navigate through their existence with a sense of direction and fulfillment.
In practice
In a motivational speech about following one's passions, one could use this quote to emphasize the importance of dreams.
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week.
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.
If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. -Sonnet 73
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