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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. - Greg Anderson

Children love to be alone, because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream - Roger Rosenblatt

I know how men in exile feed on dreams. - Aeschylus

You can live your dreams if you can embrace change. It's by taking chances that you'll learn how to be brave. - Nikita Koloff

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you 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, As A Man Thinketh

Have the courage to follow your dreams. It's the first step towards attaining your destiny. - Nikita Koloff

Capture your dreams and your life becomes full. You can, because you think you can. - Nikita Koloff

For those who dare to dream, there is a whole world to win! - Dhirubhai Ambani

I was told a long time ago that dreams are the building blocks of life. Now I look around myself, at the tragedies that have befallen this beautiful nation and am amazed at how our entire nation stands together, and with one voice says, "What have you accomplished? We're still here. Our dreams are real. You cannot, and will not win." I am amazed further still at the world's response to this message. We watch as history unfolds before us, we watch the heros that are working day and night, trying to recover those lost. I love my country, my freedom, and I will fight for it. - Heather Cowley

The dreams you choose to believe in come to be. When you feel in your innermost being that you will achieve what you set out to do, you open the way for miracles.
Choose to believe something good can happen. Expecting it to happen energizes your goal and actually gives it momentum. What you expect to happen, happens.
If you expect to succeed, you'll succeed. - Nikita Koloff

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream. - Peter McWilliams

It was almost love, it was almost always, it was like a fairy-tale we'd live out, you and I; and yes - some dreams come true, and yes - some dreams fall through - The Muppets

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 a while 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 Louise Bombeck

For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. - Vincent van Gogh

The dream follows the interpretation. - Talmud

A dream that is not interpreted is like a letter that has not been opened. - Talmud

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did. - Toni Cade Bambara

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality. - Toni Cade Bambara

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. - James A. Froude

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. - Kahlil Gibran

If you don't have a dream, how can you have a dream come true? - Jiminy Cricket

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. - Pamela Vaull Starr

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary. - Ashleigh Brilliant

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. - Edgar Cayce

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. - Erma Bombeck

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

Any dream worth dreaming, is worth the effort to make it some true. - Evan Gourley

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. - Elvis Presley

When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times...I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain’t got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song.' So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you. - Elvis Presley

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality. - Henry David Thoreau

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. - Life's Little Instruction Calendar

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. - Unknown

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream. - René Magritte

It's better to have an impossible dream than no dream at all. - Unknown

Dreams are wishes cast upon stars, so catch a shining one - take your friend's hand - and hold on forever. - Traci Brown

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills, countless ideas and endless plans: That the moment one definitely commits oneself then providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it! Boldness had genius, power, and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing happens unless first a dream. - Carl Sandburg

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

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable. - Christopher Reeve

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. - Les Brown

Believe in your dreams, For even those that seem out of reach, Are safe in unseen hands. - Unknown

A dream becomes a reality in 4 stages; dreaming, wanting, planning, and doing. Courage is the glue. If you don't have courage you will never want it bad enough to plan. If you don't have courage you will never plan it well enough to do. If you don't have courage you will never fulfil your dreams. If you do not fulfil your dreams, you may not have the courage to dream again. - Unknown

When we can't dream any longer, we die. - Emma Goldman

Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much. - Unknown

Dreams are wonderful if you follow through with them, you can be anything you want to be. - Karen S.Magee

Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamers... Bring me all of your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too-rough fingers Of the world. - Langston Hughes

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. - Louise May Alcott

When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go. - Carol Burnett

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. - Henry David Thoreau

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 with snow - Langston Hughes

A dream is an answer to a question we haven't learned to ask. - Dana Scully

If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, And endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, They will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities. - Sue Atchley Ebaugh

In the real world as in dreams, nothing is quite what it seems. - Dean R. Koontz, the Book of Counted Sorrows

Dreams do come true, if we only wish enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. - James Matthew Barrie

What's the purpose of living if you don't go after your dreams? - Samson Reiny

The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference? - Richard Bach

If I can dream, I can act. And if I can act, I can become. - Poh Yu Khing

Success never comes to look for you while you wait around. You've got to get up and work at it to make your dreams come true. - Poh Yu Khing

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on. - Steven Patrick Callahan

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. - Napoleon Hill

In dreams begins responsibility. - William Butler Yeats (1869 - 1939)

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dreams. - Vincent van Gogh

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 - curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable. - Walt Disney

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift -- yours and mine. - Barbara Sher

There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can't have -- at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most. - Barbara Sher

If you believe that dreams can come true, be prepared for the occasional nightmare too. - French Proverb

If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. - Walt Disney

The Human Spirit can never be paralyzed. If you are breathing, you can dream. - Michael Brown

If you can imagine it, You can achieve it. If you can dream it, You can become it. - William Arthur Ward

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. - Erich Fromm

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"

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. - Anais Nin

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. - Tupac Shakur

Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice. - Patricia McKillip (1948-) Science Fiction Writer

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today. - James Dean

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth.' - Dan Rather

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. - Marcus Aurelius

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. - Hannah More

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dreams never hurt anybody if he keeps working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as he can. - Frank W. Woolworth

I have had dreams, and I've had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams. - Jonas Salk

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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. - Woodrow Wilson

You must take action now that will move you toward your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. - Les Brown

When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of light into a burning point. Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive. - Ezra Taft Benson

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet. - Unknown

This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything. - Scott Reed

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. - Charles William Dement

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. - Max Beerbohm

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. - Henry David Thoreau

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. - Harry Edwards

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream. - Harry Kemp

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. - Paul Valery

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. - William Faulkner

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, then bugger it. Go back to the factory, or go back to the desk. - Eric Burdon

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age. - Alfred Victor Vigny

Dreams are . . . illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. - Susan Sontag

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. - Marcel Proust

In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness. -Ann Faraday

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. - Virginia Woolf

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. - Brian Tracy

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream. - Robert H. Schuller

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. - John Barrymore


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