We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.
Interpretation
Our thoughts and dreams can shape our reality, turning imagination into tangible outcomes.
This quote by Salman Rushdie suggests that the power of imagination and dreams is a fundamental force in bringing ideas and desires into reality. It highlights the process of envisioning something—be it a personal aspiration, like having a child, or a creative invention—before it becomes a concrete entity in the real world, emphasizing the connection between thought and creation.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing dreams, this quote can inspire listeners to believe in their ability to manifest their aspirations.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.
They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So I remember every face Of every man who put me here. I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released.
Invoke the Mercy of God and as milk returns not to the udder go not back to your wrongdoing." "Have compassion on yourself and on others and Infinite Compassion will be given to you." "In the name of Allah, All-Merciful, All Compassionate, bestow on me a Mercy that shall put me beyond the need of mercy from any other than Thee.
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