Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud’s terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things.
URSULA K. LE GUINGrace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
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You don’t become happy, you become aware that you already are.
FRODE GASLAND -
We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this is beyond our power to prove, and would be of no real value if we could.
BENJAMIN HAYDON -
Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
PLOTINUS -
Einstein said ‘your imagination is more important than intelligence,’ and I have a very, very big imagination.
LANA DEL REY -
If some one commits an error and wrong toward you, you must instantly forgive him.
ABDU'L-BAHA -
A lot of people are wanting him [Barack Obama] to be the president just because he’s black. But I think he does have some good views.
TREY SONGZ -
The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR -
I always woke up before the plane landed.
ALAN BRADLEY -
Even if it’s a long ways down the track, it punches a hole in the air that has to help. When you’re running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too.
MARIO ANDRETTI -
Most of us know exactly what it is that creates the pain, confusion, stagnation and disruption in our lives. When we find something or someone creating in our lives that which we do not want, we must muster the courage and strength to stop it.
IYANLA VANZANT -
The ability to detach yourself from your thoughts is your ticket to freedom.
SANDEEP MAHESHWARI -
Sweden is a small country and, well, our family’s pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn’t like the sound of just being ‘the fourth acting Skarsgard.
BILL SKARSGARD -
I wasn’t going to have fun doing a teen movie again.
HEATH LEDGER -
Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
JOHN STUART MILL -
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG