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.
I know I'm stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up.
I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate... and now I know what and who I want to be... a soldier for peace.
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.
Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.
We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us
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