In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that dreaming and imagination reflect our true potential and freedom.
Madeleine L'Engle's quote highlights the connection between our dreams and our inherent capabilities. It suggests that in our dreams, we experience a sense of liberation and possibility, reminiscent of our true nature as beings meant to soar beyond limitations. This idea serves as a reminder that the essence of our dreams embodies the freedom and potential that we often suppress in waking life.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage creativity and innovation.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
My goal is that a girl will watch 'The Martian' or 'Interstellar' and think, 'I want to be an astronaut or a quantum physicist.' It's important to show powerful women who are good at their jobs because young girls need those examples.
Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.
Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.
Final perseverance is the necessary evidence of genuine conversion.
Come, my friends Tis not too late to seek a newer world Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die
And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.
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