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All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Dreams come a size too big so that we may grow into them.
We live as we dream - alone.
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
English (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist
1857 - 1924
Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on.
Why does no one confess his sins Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.
A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man.
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.
Life is a dream from which we must wake before we can dream again.
Robert Jordan - The Fires of Heaven
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
Swiss psychologist
1875 - 1961
You see things and you say 'Why' But I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not'
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
1854 - 1900
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.
That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
Samuel Johnson - Rasselas
English author, critic, & lexicographer
1709 - 1784
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
Bette Davis - The Lonely Life
US movie actress
1908 - 1989
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
?Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.?
US poet
1807 - 1882
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
USA Transcendentalist author
1817 - 1862
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
US diplomat & Democratic politician
1900 - 1965
Realists don't fulfill their ambitions. There must be a dreamer in all of us.
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.
Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life
You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.
Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
US black nationalist leader
1925 - 1965
We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak.
Toni Morrison - American writer (1931-)
US novelist
1931 -
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
Oprah Winfrey - O Magazine
US actress & television talk show host
1954 -
To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve - From speech at Democratic National Convention
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
The woman of my dreams knows how to break into systems.
But if you build your life on dreams it's prudent to recall a man with moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all.
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.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
US (French-born) author & diarist
1903 - 1977
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!
It may be that those who do most, dream most.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.
There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes...
Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind
Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
Life is a lying dream, he only wake Who casts the World aside.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.
It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
US (French-born) author & diarist
1903 - 1977
If it can be dreamed, it can be done.
Walt Disney - Inauguration day of Disney World
US cartoonist & movie producer
1901 - 1966
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
Sometimes on the way to our dreams, We get lost and find an even better one
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
English critic & poet
1772 - 1834
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams.
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
Robert Jordan - The Wheel of Time
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
We live, as we dream, alone
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
USA Transcendentalist author
1817 - 1862
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not'
Irish dramatist & socialist
1856 - 1950
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
Dreams have as much influence as actions.
French Symbolist poet
1842 - 1898
I dream, therefore I become.
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
Hope is a waking dream.
Don't ever let anyone steal your dreams.
But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
And dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;
They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts,
They take a weight from off our waking toils,
They do divide our being.
English poet & satirist
1788 - 1824
To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward- your destiny-are here and now.
Dag Hammarskjold - newpaper quote of the day
Swedish diplomat
1905 - 1961
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
Imagination is the reality of the dreamer.
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
USA Transcendentalist author
1817 - 1862
I dream for a living.
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Goals are dreams with deadlines.
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
If you hear a different drummer -- dreamer, take a chance . . . The road you choose to travel means the difference in the dance.

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