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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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Books about Dreams
