Arctic Dreams Quotes

A Chipewyan guide named Saltatha once asked a French priest what lay beyond the present life. 'You have told me heaven is very beautiful,' he said. 'Now tell me one more thing. Is it more beautiful than the country of the muskoxen in the summer, when sometimes the mist blows over the lakes, and sometimes the water is blue, and the loons cry very often? That is beautiful. If heaven is still more beautiful, I will be glad. I will be content to rest there until I am very old. ~ Barry Lopez

How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. ~ Barry Lopez

It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference. ~ Robert Cormier

When she looks at my photo she thinks she is looking at me but she knows that I am also looking at her. When she dreams of me she knows that I am dreaming of her too. People who can see things from other points of view can understand this better than most. We always go where we think your attention goes. We know you are looking into our eyes because that is where the power is, even in a photo. The eyes are where the eternal fire of the soul resides. So the next time you look at a photo of your best friend, put yourself in their shoes and see how beautiful you are! ~ Kate McGahan

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom ~ T. S. Eliot

She was a kept thing, shackled to a master who would never let her go, locked in a cage of dreams. ~ Heather Demetrios

Religion [...] may be seen as literature that has succeeded beyond any writer's wildest dreams. ~ Jack Miles

Pure.

Truth is everything.
If you can reach for your dreams and aspirations
From a place of pure truth and honesty
Then life will find a way to guide you to where you are meant to be. ~ Christine Evangelou

We communicate at a superior dimension, when we live our dreams. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

From dawn to dusk I spent my time in the real world. Only in my dreams at night could I indulge my fantasies. ~ Rampo Edogawa

Because everybody on the school board, and the railroad, and the PTA and paper mill had to be somebody's mother or father, whether really or as a member of a category; and there was a point at which the reflex to their covering warmth, protection, effectiveness against bad dreams, bruised heads and simple loneliness took over and made worthwhile anger with them impossible. ~ Thomas Pynchon

I heard the gunshots. I was worried. Guns don't always mean the one holding them won."
Steven hugged her close. "Do you remember what I said to you the day we were married?"
"You said, 'I will always come back to you.'"
"I always will."
Sleep took them then, and whisked them away to their happiest dreams. Heather dreamed of the spring, a Fresh Earth many years away, and she was surrounded by her grown children and grandchildren. Steven dreamed of summer, and beer kept cold in the deeps of Deadbuck Creek, and his wife dancing in the high grass with flowers in her hair. ~ Michael Kanuckel

Money is not the goal. Money has no value. The value comes from the dreams money helps achieve. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical. ~ Harold Klemp

That's the best way to audition for anything: When your back-up plan is your dream, you know? ~ David Lee

You must build castles in the air, how else will you learn to build? ~ Haresh Sippy

Push to achieve your dreams. Don't let anyone push you out of dreamland. ~ Christy Birmingham

Most of us are still in some small way victims of the Industrial Revolution. Whether through our grandparents, our parents, or our own experience, we were raised to believe that our place in life required compliance and conformity rather than creativity and uniqueness. We have been raised in a world where information is deemed far more important than imagination. Adults replaced dreams with discipline when they were finally ready to grow up and be responsible for their lives. Whether this contrast was reinforced on an assembly line, in a cubicle, or in a classroom, the surest path to acceptance in society is accepting standardization. And we more than willingly, relinquish our uniqueness. ~ Erwin Raphael McManus

No one can avoid defeat. That is why it is better to lose a few battles in the fight for your dreams than to be defeated without even knowing why you are fighting. ~ Paulo Coelho

Don't get too comfortable in your comfort zone! By giving in to the situations, you clamp your own wings! ~ Somya Kedia

We spend too much time keeping up with celebrities. They're living their dreams, what about you? Are you where you want to be in life. Get off the couch, turn off the tv and start achieving your goals. ~ Bianca Frazier

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true. ~ Debi Thomas

Desperate to become enriched by books, I sometimes barely remembered what I'd read, yet the unconscious effect of so many sentences felt cumulative, like recurring dreams. ~ Adrienne Brodeur

Three thousand dream houses for three thousand families with presumably identical dreams. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision. ~ Helen Keller

It is not a shame to be rocked on the waves of our dreams sometime, and roam around in our memories, stirring new emotions. Memories can be a balm for demolished expectations or disfigured reality.( "Knowing someone is waiting for us" ) ~ Erik Pevernagie

He didn't know how to say good-bye. His throat ached from the strain of holding back his emotions. "I don't want to leave you," he said humbly, reaching for her cold, stiff hands.
Emma lowered her head, her tears falling freely. "I'll never see you again, will I?"
He shook his head. "Not in this lifetime," he said hoarsely.
She pulled her hands away and wrapped her arms around his neck. He felt her wet lashes brush his cheek. "Then I'll wait a hundred years," she whispered. "Or a thousand, if I must. Remember that, Nikki. I'll be waiting for you to come to me. ~ Lisa Kleypas

Make no mistake, when you start on the path to authenticity,
Love will change you, transforming your life into countless ways. Your family and friends might not notice the changes in the beginning because they're so small. but you will, and you'll know that miracles are taking place. Love will dissolve your fears by creating opportunities you couldn't have imagined before you begin the search to discover and recover your authentic self. And when doubt, despair, and denial threaten to dismantle your dreams, love will rear up in your defense. The next time you feel frightened and fragile, stand very still. If you do, you might feel the tip of an angel's wing brush against your shoulder. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

You must pursue your dreams with all your might. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you fall in love, waves of joy fill your dreams and become your reality while your realities become your dreams. ~ Debasish Mridha

It makes you a better person to know where you came from, because whereever you go, there is somebody in some town, city, hamlet, whatever, that has the same dreams you have. ~ Jamie Farr

Having day dreams, tonguing you down with, uh, vanilla ice cream. Kissing on your thigh in the moon light, searching your body with my tongue girl all night. ~ LL Cool J

We are entirely made up of dreams yearning to be lived. At every point in time, DO what you can, when you can and however you can to invest your time and efforts in your dreams; directly and without evasion. ~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

My thoughts and wishes are all that surrounds, mysteries hold you then fly you away. You know you are my life, my lady of dreams. ~ Jon Anderson

Out of the bottomless profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the highest heaven. So in dreams, have I seen majestic Satan thrusting forth his tormented colossal claw from the flame Baltic of Hell. But in gazing at such scenes, it is all in all what mood you are in; if in the Dantean, the devils will occur to you; if in that of Isaiah, the archangels. ~ Herman Melville