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I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.
-Chinese Proverb
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If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep.
-Yiddish Proverb
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If you have only two pennies left in the world, with the first penny, you should buy rice to feed your family. With the second penny, say the wise Japanese, you should buy a lily. The Japanese understand the importance of dreaming...
http://www.weyrd.org/lilies.html
-Japanese Proverb, from Lilies Words and Music: Annie Walker, October, 1999
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When one of your dreams come true, you begin to look at the others more carefully.
-Anon.
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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
-Douglas Adams
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
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He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.
-Fred A. Allen
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The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
-James Allen, source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/james_lane_allen.html
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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
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The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn.
-James Allen
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What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
-Woody Allen
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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
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O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
-Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant, Preface to a Modern Mythology, 1926
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Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
-Matthew Arnold
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When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster.
-Isaac Asimov
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A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
-W. H. Auden
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
-Gaston Bachelard
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Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
-Djuna Barnes
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Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.
-St. Basil
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For in the end it is Middle-Earth and its dwellers that we love, not Tolkien's considerable gifts in showing it to us. I said once that the world he charts was there long before him, and I still believe it. He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
-Peter S. Beagle, from the Foreword to The Fellowship of the Ring
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If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
-Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
-Bo Bennett
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Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. Ecclesiasticus 34:2
-Bible
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America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now... we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality.
-Daniel J. Boorstin
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Even interpretations based on depth-psychological dream theories often meet with some success; this despite the fact that their assumptions are purely speculative, while conclusions drawn from those assumptions, such as the posited relationship between latent and manifest dream contents, have no basis in fact.
Experience teaches, by the way, that patients who assume a observer's stance while dreaming, distancing themselves from active participation with others, require especially stubborn, persistent therapists.
Positive declarations of what something means tend to force the therapist into the role of authority figure, at the same time thrusting the patient into subordinate, infantile behavior.
Both Freud's original depth-psychological dream theory and all others that have imitated it in defining dreams as attempts at self-deception inevitably end up in a series of logical impasses...
Notwithstanding the immense expenditure of theoretical labor in past decades, today - three-quarters of a century later - critical opinion is increasingly eroding depth-psychological theories of dream interpretation. The most skeptical of these critics come from the ranks of the analysts themselves.
Because the natural scientific approach from which all depth-psychological dream theories spring is gradually relinquishing its absolute hold on the human imagination, in the future more and more patients will refuse to pass blindly over the inconsistencies hidden in traditional dream theories. Increasingly, they will defend themselves against depth-psychological dream interpretation...
The dream reinterpretations posited by depth-psychological theories are not just theoretically untenable; they also prohibit the therapist from gaining the understanding of the dreaming he needs if he is to help the patient.
-Medard Boss, I dreamt last night ..., 1977
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The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.
-Vic Braden
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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.
-Andr, Surrealist Manifestos, 1924
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
-Emily Bronte
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Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
-Joyce Brothers
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You have the courage and power to live your dreams.
-Les Brown
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Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
-John Bunyan
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You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.
-Eric Burdon
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When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
-Leo Burnett
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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
-William S. Burroughs
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Follow your bliss.
-Joseph Campbell
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The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in which all the dream characters are dreaming too, has in India enchanted and shaped the entire civilization. The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning of whose name is Unending. In the foreground stand the five Pandava brothers, heroes of the epic Mahabharata, with Draupadi, their wife: allegorically , she is the mind and they are the five senses. They are those whom the dream is dreaming. Eyes open, ready and willing to fight, the youths address themselves to this world of light in which we stand regarding them, where objects appear to be distinct from each other, and an Aristotelian logic prevails, and A is not not-A. Behind them a dream-door has opened, however, to an inward, backward dimension where a vision emerges against darkness...
-Joseph Campbell, The Mythic Image
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That, Verena managed after some suspenseful seconds, is, she said, regarding her gloved hands, remarkable. Very. I wouldn't have credited either of you with so much imagination. Or is it that I am imagining? Quite likely I'm dreaming of myself in a wet tree on a thundery night. Except I never have dreams, or perhaps I only forget them. This one I suggest we all forget.I'll own up: I think it is a dream. Miss Verena. But a man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat: he stores up a lot of poison.
-Truman Capote, The Glass Harp
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
-Edgar Cayce
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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
-William Ellery Channing
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If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.
-Joyce Chapman
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I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
-John Cheever
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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
-E. M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist
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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
-Tom Clancy
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When I dream, I am ageless.
-Elizabeth Coatsworth
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
-Jean Cocteau
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed?
And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven
and there plucked an strange and beautiful flower?
And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand?
Ah, what then?
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
-Robert Conklin
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A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
-Joseph Conrad
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Dream the impossible dream, Fight the unbeatable foe, Strive with your last ounce of courage, to reach the unreachable star.
-Joe Darion
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Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
-Belva Davis
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Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
-James Dean
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Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
-William Dement
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If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.
-Richard M. DeVos
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You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.
-Walt Disney
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If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.
-Walt Disney
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Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy.
-Walt Disney
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The antonyms for dreams are actuality, certainty, existence, fact, reality, substance, and truth.
-James Dye
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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
-Umberto Eco
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
-Marian Wright Edleman
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To dream anything that you want to dream, that is 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
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-George Eliot
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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
-Havelock Ellis
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
-Marie E. Eschenbach
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
-William Faulkner
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
-Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
-Erich Fromm, The Forgotten Language
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
-Kahlil Gibran
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I speak of love that comes to mind:
The moon is faithful, although blind;
She moves in thought she cannot speak.
Perfect care has made her bleak.
I never dreamed the sea so deep,
The earth so dark; so long my sleep,
I have become another child.
I wake to see the world go wild.
-Allen Ginsberg, An Eastern Ballad
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Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
According to: http://www.goethesociety.org/pages/quotescom.htmlthe lines are attributed to John Anster in a 'very free translation' of Faust from 1835See author: W. H. Murray
-Johann von Goethe
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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
-Johann von Goethe
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
-Florence Griffith-Joyner
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
-Oscar Hammerstein
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You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
-Mark Victor Hansen
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Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.
-Johnny Hart
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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.
-Francis Herbert Hedge
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I wept in my dreams.
I dreamed you lay in the grave;
I awoke, and the tears
still poured down my cheeks.
I wept in my dreams,
I dreamed you had left me;
I awoke and I went on weeping
long and bitterly.
I wept in my dreams,
I dreamed you were still kind to me;
I awoke, and still
the flow of my tears streams on.
-Heinrich Heine
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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
-Joseph Heller
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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
-Napoleon Hill
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Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
-Napoleon Hill
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
-Ralph Hodgson
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We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
-Eric Hoffer
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If you force the trail to emerge and turn with your every command, then most likely it will only become what you imagined. If you just enjoy the anticipation of each new curve and seize it as it comes, the road around the bend might lead to the unimaginable.
-Bryan Hufalar, (quotation submitted to Quoteland)
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All men of action are dreamers.
-James G. Huneker
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Castles in the air - -they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well.
-Henrik Ibsen
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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
-Jesse Jackson
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
-Thomas Jefferson
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You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.
-Earvin ''Magic'' Johnson
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It's not what the dream is but what the dream does.
-John Johnson
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It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
-Carl Gustav Jung, The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man
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I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.
-Henry J. Kaiser
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Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.
-Herbert Kaufman
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Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.
-Neil Kendall
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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
-Robert Francis Kennedy
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Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.
-Sister Corita Kent
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
-Jack Kerouac
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In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.
-Pir Vilayat Khan
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The more you can dream, the more you can do.
-Michael Korda
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All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality.
-Thomas E. Lawrence
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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 on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
-Thomas Edward Lawrence (of Arabia)
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It may be those who do most, dream most.
-Stephen Leacock
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Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream --a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows --is essentially poetry.
-Michel Leiris
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You make your own dream. That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story. That's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself. That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be. There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.
-John Lennon
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I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
-John Locke
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One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
-James Russell Lowell
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
-E. V. Lucas, 365 Days and One More
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I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu. On the subject of her early aspirations
-Elle Macpherson
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You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day -- not long and difficult projects, but chores that will take you, step by step, toward your rainbow. Write them down, if you must, but limit your list so that you won't have to drag today's undone matters into tomorrow. Remember that you cannot build your pyramid in twenty-four hours. Be patient. Never allow your day to become so cluttered that you neglect your most important goal -- to do the best you can, enjoy this day, and rest satisfied with what you have accomplished.
-Og Mandino
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
-Orison Swett Marden
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Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
-Edwin Markham
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The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
-Henry Miller
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But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
-Michel de Montaigne
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To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!
-Alfred A. Montapert
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Sweet is the dream, divinely sweet,
When absent souls in fancy meet.
-Thomas Moore, from: To Julia
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Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
-Gerard De Nerval
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I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.
-Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished fragments dating to Fall 1881
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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.
-Anais Nin, The Diaries of Ana
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Dreams are necessary to life.
-Anais Nin
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Everything starts as somebody's day dream.
-Larry Niven
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
-Novalis
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The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.
-Austin O'Malley
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If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
-Barack Obama, Victory speech in US presidential election, home state of Chicago, November 4, 2008.
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I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
-Frederick Salomon Perls
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Big thinking precedes great achievement.
-Wilferd A. Peterson
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In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
-Luigi Pirandello
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Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
-Edgar Allan Poe, Dream Within A Dream, A
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
-Edgar Allan Poe
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In the one instance, the dreamer, or enthusiast, being interested by an object usually not frivolous, imperceptibly loses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestions issuing therefrom, until, at the conclusion of a day dream often replete with luxury, he finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings, utterly vanished and forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance. Few deductions, if any, were made; and those few pertinaciously returning in, so to speak, upon the original object as a centre. The meditations were never pleasurable; and, at the termination of the reverie, the first cause, so far from being out of sight, had attained that supernaturally exaggerated interest which was the prevailing feature of the disease. In a word, the powers of mind more particularly exercised were, with me, as I have said before, the attentive, and are, with the day-dreamer, the speculative.
-Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice
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Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
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When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of one
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-Marcel Proust, Within A Budding Grove Vol. 2 of Remembrance of Things Past
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A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
-Zadok Rabinwitz
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
-Man Ray
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To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
-Antoine Rivarol
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You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows -- and has always known -- that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.
-Anthony Robbins
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We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.
as cited by Susan Sackett, author of Inside Trek: A Star Trek Memoir, used with permission
-Gene Roddenberry, on receiving his honorary Doctorate at Emerson College, Boston in the early 1970s
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
-Diana Ross
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I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on...
-Christina Rossetti
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Only in dreams does the happiness of the earth dwell.
-Ruckett
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The dust of many crumbled cities settles over us like a forgetful doze, but we are older than those cities. We began as a mineral. We emerged into plant life and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again. That's how a young person turns toward a teacher. That's how a baby leans toward the breast, without knowing the secret of its desire, yet turning instinctively. Humankind is being led along an evolving course, through this migration of intelligences, and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and that will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.
-Rumi, The Dream That Must Be Interpreted
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I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
-Jonas Salk
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Know thyself, believe in God, and dare to dream.
-John Thomas "Spider" Salley
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Nothing happens unless first a dream.
-Carl Sandburg
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Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
-Friedrich von Schiller
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Dreams show you that you have the power...
-Helen Schucman
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Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status? Do you want to become a better and more beautiful person than you are today? Would you like to be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine humility? Then start dreaming! It?s possible! You can become the person you have always wanted to be!
-Robert H. Schuller
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You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
-Robert H. Schuller
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Build a dream and the dream will build you.
-Robert H. Schuller
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I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
-William Shakespeare
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We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. The Tempest
-William Shakespeare
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That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.
-William Shakespeare
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Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried.
-William Shakespeare
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It is a shame that when we have a good dream we are asleep at the time.
-P.K. Shaw
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And our dreams are who we are.
-Barbara Sher
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
-Barbara Sher
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Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
-Charles Simmons
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Aim for your star, no matter how far, you must reach high above and touch your life with love, you must never look back, but charge on! Attack! See your goal your star of desire, see it red hot, feel it burning, you must be obsessed with it to make it your true yearning, be ready my friends for when you truly believe it, you will certainly achieve it and by all of God?s universal laws you will always receive it!
-Bob Smith
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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
-Logan Pearsall Smith
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You can
-Scott Sorrell
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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
-Robert Southey
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I remember when I was in school, they would ask, What are you going to be when you grow up? and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.
-Gwen Stefani
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Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
-John Sterling
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-Conway Stone
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-Conway Stone
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I dream, therefore I exist.
-J. August Strindberg
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We bless and curse ourselves. Some dreams are divine, as well as some waking thoughts. Donne sings of one Who dreamt devoutlier than most use to pray. Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. We are scarcely less afflicted when we remember some unworthiness in our conduct in a dream, than if it had been actual, and the intensity of our grief, which is our atonement, measures inversely the degree by which this is separated from an actual unworthiness. For in dreams we but act a part which must have been learned and rehearsed in our waking hours, and no doubt could discover some waking consent thereto. If this meanness has not its foundation in us, why are we grieved at it? In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. But an unwavering and commanding virtue would compel even its most fantastic and faintest dreams to respect its ever wakeful authority; as we are accustomed to say carelessly, we should never have dreamed of such a thing. Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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-Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
-Donald Trump
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You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
-Donald Trump
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Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
-Dale Turner
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Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang Tzu.
-Chuang Tzu
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You can make the dream come true if you wake up and work.
-Source Unknown
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When you dream alone, with your eyes shut, asleep, that dream is an illusion. But when we dream together, sharing the same dream, awake and with our eyes wide open, then that dream becomes reality!
-Source Unknown
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Your dreams will come true... if you can see it... if you believe in it... then you can achieve it.
-Source Unknown
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A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
-Source Unknown
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Oversleeping will never make one's dreams come true.
-Source Unknown
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Dreams are free.
-Source Unknown
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No dreamer is ever to small; no dream is ever to big.
-Source Unknown
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Like dreams, small creeks grow into mighty rivers.
-Source Unknown
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If all of our wishes were gratified, many of our dreams would be destroyed.
-Source Unknown
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His life was a sort of dream, as are most lives with the mainspring left out.
-Source Unknown
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Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
-John Updike
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Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
-Peter Ustinov
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Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
-Jim Valvano
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For my own part, I declare I know nothing whatever about it. But to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France? If we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star. One thing undoubtedly true in this reasoning is this: that while we are alive we cannot get to a star, any more than when we are dead we can take the train.
-Vincent van Gogh, Letter to Theo van Gogh, July 9, 1888
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Dream big and dare to fail.
-Norman D. Vaughan
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
-Denis Waitley
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We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
-Denis Waitley
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Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
-Denis Waitley
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Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
-Lord Weinstock
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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.
-Marcia Wieder
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Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams
In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight
That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams,
And shoot the shadows through and through with light?
What matters one lost vision of the night?
Let the dream go! ...
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Let Them Go
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
-Oscar Wilde
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
-Oscar Wilde
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
-Woodrow Wilson
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In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
-William Wordsworth
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Don't ever let anyone steal your dreams.
-Dexter Yager
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It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this.
-Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure
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Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
published in the collection The Wind Among the Reeds and quoted in the movie Equilibrium (2002)
-William Butler Yeats, He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, 1899
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Books about Dreams
