Rather than be confronted with an overwhelming proof of the limitations of our understanding, we accuse the dreams of not making sense. —Erich Fromm More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you compare dreams of olden times with those of our time, you will note that the basic problems have remained the same. —Emil A. Gutheil More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And suddenly, I understood; everything became extraordinarily clear and simple. Everything: life, death, the meaning of existence. And even stronger than this revelation was my surprise: how had no one on earth yet understood this thing, so extraordinarily simple? . . . I had the feeling that a message had been transmitted to me, that I should remember [it] so as to be able to communicate it to men. I woke up . . . with this idea in mind: not to forget what I had seen. A second later, I had forgotten. —Mircea Eliade More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist upon a challenging proposition: You must live truthfully. Right now. And always. Few forces in life present, with an equal sense of inevitability, the bare-knuckle facts of who we are, and the demands of what we might become. —Marc Ian Barasch More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. —Susan Sontag More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. —Emily Bronte More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The human imagination . . . has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. —John Berger More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I cried at first . . . and then, it was such a beautiful day, that I forgot to be unhappy. —Frances Noyes Hart More about this quote Tags: happiness tears Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something. —H. Jackson Brown, Jr. More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief, but gratitude. —Thornton Wilder More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the story, an old man is dying and calls his people to his side. He gives a short, sturdy stick to each of his many offspring, wives, and relatives. "Break the stick," he instructs them. With some effort, they all snap their sticks in half. "This is how it is when a soul is alone without anyone. They can be easily broken." The old man next gives each of his kin another stick and says, ". . . Put your sticks together in bundles of twos and threes. Now, break these bundles in half." No one can break the sticks when there are two or more in a bundle. The old man smiles. "We are strong when we stand with another soul. When we are with another, we cannot be broken. —Clarissa Pinkola Estés More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Jiddu Krishnamurti, one of the most revered spiritual teachers of this century, once asked a small group of listeners what they would say to a close friend who is about to die. Their answers dealt with assurances, words about beginnings and endings, and various gestures of compassion. Krishnamurti stopped them short. "There is only one thing you can say to give the deepest comfort," he said. "Tell him that in his death a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you go also. He will not be alone. —Larry Dossey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. —Madame de Stael More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Jim Moore, founder of a famous New York restaurant, had many friends in the theatrical world. As he grew older, several of them died and were sorely missed by Moore. One Friday afternoon he made a pilgrimage to the graves of those departed friends, remonstrating with them for their thoughtlessness in dying. When he got to George M. Cohan's grave, he took out a parcel of fish and thumped it against the headstone. "In case you don't know," he shouted, "today's Friday, and I just want you to see what you're missing. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: friends death fish theatre Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can't forgive my friends for dying. I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. —Logan Pearsall Smith More about this quote Tags: forgiveness death missing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email