You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.
Interpretation
Accepting reality is vital, but dreams can offer solace when reality falls short.
Ray Bradbury's quote reflects the importance of accepting what life presents to us, symbolized by the term 'Providence,' which suggests a divine power guiding our fate. It encourages the idea that while we may not always attain our desires or the 'reality' we seek, holding onto dreams can provide comfort and a sense of purpose as we navigate life's challenges.
In practice
During a motivational speech about resilience, you could illustrate the importance of dreams when real-life obstacles seem overwhelming.
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
I never went to college, so I went to the library.
There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.
I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.
I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people's standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me.
In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.
O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
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