Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?
Interpretation
Each individual has their own unique perspective and dreams that shape their personal reality.
P. L. Travers' quote highlights the idea that every person lives in a 'Fairyland'βa metaphorical space crafted by their dreams, imagination, and personal experiences. This suggests that everyone perceives and interacts with the world differently, shaped by their unique thoughts and emotions, which are invaluable to understanding human diversity.
In practice
In a motivational speech about creativity, one might use this quote to emphasize the importance of nurturing personal dreams.
Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.
For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.
Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade; therefore they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as be wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.
Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.
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