You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.
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The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
It may be that those who do most, dream most.
Don't ever let anyone steal your dreams.
VICTORY - Champions have it deep inside of them - a dream, a desire, a vision. They have the last minute stamina. They have to be a little faster. They have to have the will and the skill. But the will must be greater than the skill.
What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams . . . and what we do to make them come about.
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
You see things and you say 'Why' But I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not'
Dreams come a size too big so that we may grow into them.
It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.
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.
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.
We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.
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.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
We live, as we dream, alone
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.
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that some day, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary impossible.
All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams.
Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
Life is a dream from which we must wake before we can dream again.
What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story,
And the greatest good is little enough:
for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
And the greatest good is little enough:
for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
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.
My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Dreams are wishes your heart makes.
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
Hope is a waking dream.
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
If it can be dreamed, it can be done.
But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
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?
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.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.
We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought.
The Human Spirit can never be paralyzed. If you are breathing, you can dream.
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.
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
If thou shouldst never see my face again,Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of.
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.
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
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 dreamer lives for eternity.
If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
Only dreamers can teach us to soar.
Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Dreams take us to levels we would otherwise be afraid to strive for.
Sometimes on the way to our dreams, We get lost and find an even better one
so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.
Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash...Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.
I know a mother-in-law who sleeps with her glasses on, the better to see her son-in-law suffer in her dreams.
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.