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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON DREAMS 1
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 (1952-, British science fiction writer)
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 (1952-, British science fiction writer)
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888, American educator, social reformer)
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 (1864-1912, British-born American essayist, author, "As A Man Thinketh")
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 (1935-, American director, screenwriter, actor, comedian)
Dream big dreams, then put on your overalls and go out and make the dreams come true.
Fred Van Amburgh
I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.
Tony Arata (1957-, American song writer)
I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.
Tony Arata (1957-, American song writer)
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong (1930-, American astronaut, first man stepped on the moon)
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888, British poet, critic)
When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster.
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992, Russian-born American author)
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 (1907-1973, Anglo-American poet)
Initially I wanted to be Muhammad Ali. But then I got into a fight and I got my butt kicked, so I figured I could choose something else.
Babyface (1959-, American musician, producer, songwriter)
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach (1936-, American author)
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962, French scientist, philosopher, literary theorist)
You have the courage and power to live your dreams.
Les Brown (1945-, American speaker, author, trainer, motivator,)
You have the courage and power to live your dreams.
Les Brown (1945-, American speaker, author, trainer, motivator,)
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
Djuna Barnes (1892-1982, American author, poet, columnist)
If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849, British poet)
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 (1914-2004, American historian)
The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.
Vic Braden (American tennis coach)
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 (1818-1848, British novelist, poet)
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 (1818-1848, British novelist, poet)
Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
Dr. Joyce Brothers (1927-, American psychologist, television and radio personality)
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873, British novelist, poet)
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 (1628-1688, British author)
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
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 (1891-1971, American marketing expert)
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997, American writer)
Follow your bliss.
Joseph Campbell (1904-1987, American scholar, writer, teacher)
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 (American author) Author's website: www.joycechapman.com
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 (American author) Author's website: www.joycechapman.com
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
John Cheever (1912-1982, American author)
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 (1947-, American author, "The Hunt For Red October")
When I dream, I am ageless.
Elizabeth Coatsworth (1893-1986, American writer, poet)
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 (1889-1963, French author, filmmaker)
Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
Robert Conklin (American teacher, author, speaker)
Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
Robert Conklin (American teacher, author, speaker)
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, he drowns.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924, Polish-born British novelist)
When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.
Jiminy Cricket (Cartoon character)
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Belva Davis
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
James Dean (1931-1955, American actor)
Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement
Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement
If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.
Richard M. DeVos (1926-, American businessman, co-founder of Amway Corp.)
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 (1901-1966, American artist, film producer)
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
Umberto Eco (1929-, Italian novelist and critic)
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Marian Wright Edelman
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 (American writer)
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
Havelock Ellis (1859-1939, British psychologist)
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
When we can't dream any longer, we die.
Goldman Emma (1869-1940, Russian writer)
When we can't dream any longer, we die.
Goldman Emma (1869-1940, Russian writer)
What distinguishes us from one another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.
Joseph Epstein
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner (1897-1962, American novelist)
You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.
Debbi Fields
His life was a sort of dream, as are most lives with the mainspring left out.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940, American writer) Author's website: www.fitzgeraldsociety.org
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American publisher, businessman)
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American publisher, businessman)
We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.
Maria Irene Fornes
It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but faith with action is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but desire and work is invincible.
Thomas Robert Gaines
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 (1883-1931, Lebanese poet, novelist)
The important thing is to dare to dream big, then take action to make it come true.
Joe Girard (1929-, American sales trainer, author, lecturer)
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
Ralph Hodgson (1871-1962, British poet)
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826, American President (3rd))
Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.
Robert K. Greenleaf
For anything new to emerge there must first be a dream, an imaginative view of what might be.
Robert K. Greenleaf
The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
Florence Griffith-Joyner (1959-, American track athlete)
If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
Oscar Hammerstein (1846-1919, German theatrical impresario)
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 (American motivational speaker, author) Author's website: www.markvictorhansen.com
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
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
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 (1846-1924, British philosopher)
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970, American speaker, author, "Think And Grow Rich")
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983, American author, philosopher)
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Kerouac Jack (American writer)
You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.
Earvin "Magic" Johnson (1959-, American basketball player)
There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia today, flesh and blood tomorrow.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist)
All men of action are dreamers.
James G. Huneker (1860-1921, American critic, musician)
Castles in the air: they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well.
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906, Norwegian dramatist)
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Eugene Ionesco (1912-1994, Romanian-born French playwright)
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Jesse Jackson (1941-, American clergyman, Civil Rights leader)
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Anna Jameson (1794-1860, British essayist)
It's not what the dream is but what the dream does.
John H. Johnson (1918-, American businessman, founder of Johnson Publishing)
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
Carl Jung (1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist)
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 (1882-1967, American industrialist)
Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.
Herbert Kaufman
Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.
Neil Kendall
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 F. Kennedy (1925-1968, American attorney general, senator)
Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.
Sister Corita Kent
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 (1916-, Western philosopher teacher, master, author)
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation when they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968, American Civil Rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, 1964)
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
Michael Korda (1919-, American publisher)
It may be those who do most, dream most.
Stephen B. Leacock (1869-1944, Canadian humorist, economist)
It may seem that those who do the most, dream the most.
Stephen B. Leacock (1869-1944, Canadian humorist, economist)
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 (1852-1940, American poet and editor)
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 (1888-1935, British soldier, Arabist writer)
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 (1891-1980, American author)
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