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.
Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.
The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.
Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity
Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that youβve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your own sense of dialogue, in your own language form. Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Ideas are probably in the air, like little tiny items of ozone.
Abortion is murder in the womb...A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.