Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Interpretation
Dreams represent our aspirations and desires, and while they exist, they shape our reality.
This quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson reflects on the transient nature of dreams and their impact on our lives. It suggests that as long as we hold onto our dreams, they have a significant role in defining our reality, prompting us to consider the blurred lines between dreams and our actual existence.
In practice
In a graduation speech to inspire students about the importance of following their dreams.
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!
Earth is dry to the centre,_x000D_ But spring, a new comer,_x000D_ A spring rich and strange,_x000D_ Shall make the winds blow_x000D_ Round and round,_x000D_ Thro' and thro',_x000D_ Here and there,_x000D_ Till the air_x000D_ And the ground_x000D_ Shall be fill'd with life anew.
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.
Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you,in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.
How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.
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