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“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.”

Way Heart Mean Doe Sometimes Seems Spirit Fantasy Our Lives Influence Awareness Glory Forgotten Seriousness Heaviness Unfeeling

Book:Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre

Source: Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre

“The average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and we have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours - one-third of our lives on earth - spinning fantasies.”

Long Two Earth Hours Half Fantasy Our Lives Thousand Thirds Average Seconds Waking Spinning Daydreaming Fourteen

Book:The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

Source: The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

“Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having - a little fantasy about the people we might turn into one day, when our lives are different, quieter, more introspective, and when all the urgent reading, whatever that might be, has been done. We never arrive at that point, needless to say.”

People Littles Has Beens Book Different Done Might Turns Reading Fantasy Our Lives One Day Urgent Daydreaming Introspective

Book:More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time Itself

Source: More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time Itself

“The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.”

Self Reality Faces Life Is Nations Fantasy Our Lives Self Esteem Healthy Activism Core Esteem Healthy Self Esteem Living Consciously

Author:Bell Hooks

“Heavenly comfort, rather, is truth, which blows away human fantasies that we can live forever, control everything, or fake our lives before God.”

Humans Fantasy Forever Our Lives Comfort Blow Fake Heavenly Live Forever

Author:Sarah Miles