My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her. I believe I can do anything. If I decide I want to be a doctor tomorrow, I'm going to be a doctor.
Amy Jo JohnsonIf dreams can be portents of what is to come, then I had my fair share if forewarning before my life was stolen away.
Charles De Lint'So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!'
Peter PanGod's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningObviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
Sigmund FreudLike dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfilment
Jean BaudrillardWhen Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
Franz KafkaOur life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Anais NinThe real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto EcoI come from a generation where the dreams and aspirations of a whole lot of young men were sacrificed at the altar of getting some kind of menial job.
Bill DixonAs Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect
Franz KafkaIn the days that follow, look at our airports, look at our seaports, and look at our railway stations. And even after your cowardly attacks, people from the rest of Britain, people from around the world will arrive in London to become Londoners and to fulfil their dreams and achieve their potential
Ken LivingstoneKeep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. [On how to be a successful athlete]
Gail DeversIt is the logic of our times,
No subject for immortal verse-
That we who lived by honest dreams
Defend the bad against the worse. ('Where are the War Poets?')
C Day-LewisThe fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. And no heart ever suffered when it went in search of its dreams.
Paulo Coelho'What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become, except in dreams that blow in from out there bearing the fragrance of islands we have not yet sighted in our waking hours...' (David Malouf, An Imaginary Life, p.135)
David MaloufHe [Peter Pan] is a metaphor for dreams and faith.
Mark BurnettWas I the perfect mum? No... I think you have to let them follow their dreams, I think it would be worse in the end if you didn't
Lynne SpearsDreamer of dreams, born out of my true time,
Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?
William MorrisAll books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words
Amy LowellHow blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads. To whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams [erm quite indeed]
Bram StokerMy dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyOld age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Soren KierkegaardWho so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. [Ecclesiasticus 34:2]
BibleWinning a medal is what every athlete dreams of, and if it is the Olympic gold then that is the icing on the cake
Jeff FenechNo person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Marian Wright EdelmanHow many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true! - Life and Human Nature
Logan Pearsall SmithDreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
Djuna BarnesI've seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerThe world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.
Paulo CoelhoAnything is possible in a world of dreams.
Mike CunninghamConsult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIIIGod wills, Man dreams, the Work is born.
Fernando PessoaAll of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William FaulknerDreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Baltasar GracianI was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
Susan SontagA thousand creeds and battle cries,
A thousand warring social schemes,
A thousand new moralities
And twenty thousand, thousand dreams.
Alfred NoyesI'm constantly having dreams where I'm incarcerated again or being chased by the police. That's the most horrible dream.
Mark WahlbergFollow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up, and you will achieve success in what you set out to do.
Rachel CorrieBut I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W B YeatsLearn from your dreams what you lack.
W H AudenA dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
Umberto EcoWe 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 FrommDreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais NinGo confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
Henry David ThoreauHold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston HughesThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
Eleanor RooseveltGround not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.
Thomas MiddletonDreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
Robert ConklinUnpinned even by rudimentary notions of time and space, dreams float or flash by, leaving in their wake trails of unease, hopes and fears.
Stephen Brook
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