“In each of us lies sleeping beauty, wasted potential, dying dreams. We sleep and live in dormant twilight, never knowing what it means to live, to love the bits of heaven that we can unearth deep in our hearts; not recognizing that our salvation is ever-present in those parts that we have disowned, denied, forgotten. The thorns of fear thwart faint attempt. The prince is courage, the kiss believing and then with these our life begins.” BelieveHeartMeanDreamLyingHeavenBitsSleepKnowingOur LivesDyingKissingSalvationForgottenDeniedTwilightRecognizingThornsDormantSleeping Beauty Author:Kay Thompson
“Jokes often arise involuntarily, like dreams, and tend to be swiftly forgotten. From these similarities Freud inferred that jokes and dreams share a common origin in the unconscious. Both are essentially means of outwitting our inner 'censor'.” MeanDreamCommonShareHumourJokesForgottenAriseUnconsciousSimilarityOutwitting Book:Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes Source: Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes
“That's the nub of the thing, you see seriousness of spirit. It doesn't mean heaviness of heart, or a lack of fantasy, but it does mean an awareness of influences that touch our lives, sometimes in ways that seem cruel and unfeeling, and sometimes in ways that open up a glory which can never be forgotten.” WayHeartMeanDoeSometimesSeemsSpiritFantasyOur LivesInfluenceAwarenessGloryForgottenSeriousnessHeavinessUnfeeling Book:Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre Source: Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre