"Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer..."

-- Siri Hustvedt

#Dream Quotes #Dreamer Quotes #Stories Quotes

“We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?”
“I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.”
“It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.”
“I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.”
“So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.”
“Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.”
“The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.”
“The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.”

Source : Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.47, Hackett Publishing

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