In my dreams, I never have an age.
Interpretation
Dreams transcend age and limitations.
This quote expresses the idea that in our dreams and aspirations, we are not constrained by the physical limitations of age. It suggests that the imagination and spirit remain eternally youthful, allowing us to explore possibilities without the burdens of time.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing dreams regardless of age.
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.
The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of justice must continue to rest.
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang TsΗ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
Faith is the evidence of the unseen.
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