What it's like to dream
- "When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been."
--Patch Adams - "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
--Louisa May Alcott - "Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."
--James Allen - "Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams."
--Anonymous - "Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become."
--Anonymous - "I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth--if this; dream a great dream."
--John A. Appleman - "In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."
--Janos Arany - "Hope is a waking dream."
-- Aristotle - "The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality."
--Toni Cade Bambara - "Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."
--Sir James M. Barrie - "Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them."
--Josie Bisset - "There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in."
--Erma Bombeck - "I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."
--Emily Bronte - "The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing--where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do."
--Phillips Brooks - "Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams."
--Joyce Brothers - "The only limits are, as always, those of vision."
--James Broughton - "Empower your dreams with deadlines."
--H. Jackson Brown - "There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream--whatever that dream might be."
--Pearl S. Buck - "Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets."
--Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - "In dreams begins responsibility."
--William Butler Yeats - "Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on."
--Steven Callahan - "A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life."
--Joseph Campbell - "All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams."
--Elias Canetti - "Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations."
--Ralph Charell - "The way I see it, there are two kinds of dreams. One is a dream that's always going to be just that..... A dream. A vision that you can never really hold in your hand. Then there's a dream that's more than a dream its like.... A map. A map that you live by and follow for the rest of your days Knowing that someday your going to stand on top of that Mountain holding everything you thought of Right There In Your Hand!"
--Robert Cooper - "I learned that there were two ways I could live my life: following my dreams or doing something else. Dreams aren't a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. When I dream, I believe I am rehearsing my future."
--David Copperfield - "For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."
--Leonard da Vinci - "Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."
--Belva Davis - "A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace."
-- Walter de la Mare - "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery - "Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."
-- Charles William Dement - "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
--Walt Disney - "To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed."
--Bernard Edmonds - "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."
--Albert Einstein - "Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson - "There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."
--Douglas Everett - "All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."
--William Faulkner - "Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
--William Faulkner - "The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."
-- William Faulkner - "Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."
--Charles Fisher - "When you cease to dream you cease to live."
--Malcolm S. Forbes - "To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe."
--Anatole France - "Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being."
--Sigmund Freud - "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts - That hope always triumphs over experience - That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death."
--Robert Fulghum - "People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food."
--Dorothy Gilman - "It is difficult to say what is impossible for the dream of yesterday is the reality of tomorrow."
--Dr. Robert H. Goddard - "Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it."
--Goethe - "I dream, therefore I become."
--Cheryl Grossman - "You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?"
--Oscar Hammerstein II - "The excitement, the true excitement, was always in starting again. Nothing's worse than an accomplished task, a realized dream."
--Marilyn Harris - "We are not hypocrites in our sleep."
--William Hazlitt - "Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare."
-- H. F. Hedge - "It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
--Eric Hoffer - "Make no little plans. They have no Magic to stir Men's blood."
--D.B. Hudson - "Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die Life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams for if dreams go Life is a barren field frozen in snow."
--Langston Hughes - "All men of action are dreamers."
-- James G. Huneker - "No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams."
--Jesse Jackson - "Most people never run far enough on their first wind, to find out if they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you."
--William James - "My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair."
--Thomas Jefferson
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