The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Anais NinRead
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the pursuit of dreams and the fleeting moments of fulfillment in that chase.
Anais Nin's quote captures the essence of striving toward one's dreams, emphasizing that the journey itself is miraculous. The 'dream' symbolizes aspirations that often seem just out of reach, and the act of catching up signifies moments of alignment with those aspirations, highlighting the beauty found in the pursuit, even if the dream itself remains elusive.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to inspire people to chase their dreams.
The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.
The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.
Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.
Growing up in my mother's Pueblo household, I never imagined a world in which I would be represented by someone who looked like me.
Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people and the sort of inspiration that you see from so many hundreds of people who tackle tasks that are impossible and never give up and succeed.
Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.
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