"We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost."

-- Gaston Bachelard

#Dream Quotes #Memories Quotes #Real Quotes

“To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years.”
“It's quite easy to make a load of people laugh, it's often a reflex action, but I think to make them cry is harder without manipulating them.”
“I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.”
“Much of the hatred and fear of sexuality found in religions stems from the idea that sex is a thing of the body and that the body must be denied so that the spirit may be elevated. In Buddhism there is no notion that the body is made of inferior matter while the spirit flies free within.”
“I was unwilling to be the good girl who respected the rules in a game designed to keep everyone but the rulemakers off balance.”

Source : Marilyn Wallace (1992). “So Shall You Reap”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group
“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?”
“I think comedy is no different now than it was at other points. It takes a long time to get good and know how to distill what makes you funny beyond the realm of standup, which is what I'm trying to do with 'Teachers Lounge.'”

Source : "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.
“A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.”

Source : Oliver Gaspirtz (2014). “Pet Humor!”, p.54, Westhoff Publishing

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