Dreams Quotes

What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again.

Joseph Heller, Catch 22

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

Stephane Mallarme

Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible.

Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

Patanjali

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Eugene Ionesco

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

It is amazing that our souls - - Our eternal essences, with all their hopes an dreams and visions of an eternal world - - Are contained within these temporal bodies.

Marion Woodman

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

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Christopher Reeve, From speech at Democratic National Convention, August 1996

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Anais Nin

In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.

Haniel Long

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)

Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life.

Henry Havelock Ellis

All of our dreams can come true - - If we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

Dr. Jonas Salk

I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Sir Walter Scott

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.

Anna M. Uhlich

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.

Henry Vaughn

And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

Lord Byron

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams.

Tupac Amaru Shaku

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.

Man Ray, O Magazine, September 2002

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

Diana Scharf Hunt

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit - - Enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

Eric Anderson

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they? ve got a second. Give your dreams all you? ve got and you? ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!

William James

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

Paul Valery

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

Sue Atchley Ebaugh

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Ashley Smith

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich von Schille

Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams.

John C. Maxwell, The 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leade

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Henry David Thoreau