![Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.](/assets/img/quote-photos/stars-may-be-seen-from-the-bottom-of-a-deep-well-when-they-cannot-be-discerned-f.jpg)
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I wrote what interested me; and my method of working out my story through the dream process probably underlay the wheels within wheels aspect. A. E. van Vogt
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Just to get to play the first game of the season is what I've dreamed of, and it happened. Lukas Krajicek
dreams thy true
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. Friedrich Schiller
dream thy true youth
Keep true to the dream of thy youth.
dream gives thinking
Just thinking about it gives me the chills, ... It's one of the things I dream about at night. Ray Young
dream fun magnitude mine
Hector Mine was a dream earthquake. All the fun of a magnitude 7 without any of the guilt.
dream game
Having a game like this is a dream come true.
dreamed drowning famous man rich
Guido clung to this thought like a drowning man clutching at a straw. He was rich and famous now, he told himself, and wasn't that what he'd always dreamed of?
dream fairy family incomplete loved maybe tales wanting worlds
I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress. Lauren Bacall
gratitude giving pardon
God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude. Robert Creeley
gratitude mistake focus
...for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint. Richard Paul Evans
gratitude appreciate mind
The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind... Richard Whately
gratitude special mercy
Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy. Richard Baxter
gratitude eye writing
You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write. Woodrow Wilson
gratitude money men
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them. William Wordsworth
gratitude safety liberty
Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others. William J. Clinton
gratitude grateful fall
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth. Sarah Ban Breathnach
gratitude neglected
[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone. William F. Buckley, Jr.
stars angel asking-why
We should, can and most of the time do communicate with God directly. To my knowledge, angels are not necessary for anything. But God's creation is abundant, and asking "Why angels?" would be like asking why there are thousands of varieties of trees or stars, when we could get along with so much less. God Himself told us many times that He was sending angels to love and care for us, so He is the one who brought them into our lives. Therefore, even if we don't understand their entire purpose, I vote that we pay attention to them. Joan Anderson
stars cities silence
Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence. Robert Cormier
stars years mtv
But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it. Rob Sheffield
stars believe adversity
It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.
stars learning science
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. Richard P. Feynman
stars video band
He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio star. I wished someone would kill this radio. Richelle Mead
stars skeletons flames
Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it'd be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire.
stars sky government
Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky. Reinhold Niebuhr
stars people looks
I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me. Willie Aames