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If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended,That you have but slumbered hereWhile these visions did appear.And this weak and idle theme,No more yielding but a dream,Gentles, do not reprehend:If you pardon, we will mend:And, as I am an honest Puck,If we have unearned luckNow to 'scape the serpent's tongue,We will make amends ere long;Else the Puck a liar call;So, good night unto you all.Give me your hands, if we be friends,And Robin shall restore amends.
— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.
— Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.
— Walt Disney Company, 12 Princess Stories
In dreams begin responsibilities.
— W.B. Yeats, Responsibilities
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.
— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. 
— Anaïs Nin
Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come. Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.What would you like to have happen in your life this year? What would you like to do, to accomplish? What good would you like to attract into your life? What particular areas of growth would you like to have happen to you? What blocks, or character defects, would you like to have removed?What would you like to attain? Little things and big things? Where would you like to go? What would you like to have happen in friendship and love? What would you like to have happen in your family life?What problems would you like to see solved? What decisions would you like to make? What would you like to happen in your career?Write it down. Take a piece of paper, a few hours of your time, and write it all down - as an affirmation of you, your life, and your ability to choose. Then let it go. The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.
— Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.(From an introductory speech at a session of the Académie Française, December 24, 1896)
— Anatole France, Works of Anatole France
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
— Madonna
To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.
— Justina Chen, North of Beautiful
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
— Ingmar Bergman
I was born to catch dragons in their dens / And pick flowers / To tell tales and laugh away the morning / To drift and dream like a lazy stream / And walk barefoot across sunshine days.
— James Kavanaugh, Sunshine Days and Foggy Nights
Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Run my dear,From anythingThat may not strengthenYour precious budding wings.
We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.
— Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Hold fast to dreamsfor if dreams dielife is a broken-winged birdthat can not fly.Hold fast to dreamsfor when dreams golife is a barren fieldfrozen with snow.
— Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
— Toni Morrison
Is that me?,' Leo said. 'Like me--having this dream--looking at me having a dream?
— Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
Don't ditch your childhood dreams just because you dreamt them up as a child.
— Carrie Hope Fletcher
I had a dream about a motorcycle," said Harry, remembering suddenly. "It was flying."Uncle Vernon nearly crashed into the car in front. He turned right around in his seat and yelled at Harry, his face like a gigantic beet with a mustache: "MOTORCYCLES DON'T FLY!"Dudley and Piers sniggered."I know they don't," said Harry. "It was only a dream.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.
— Michael J. Sullivan, Percepliquis
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams
— Tupac Shakur
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy. 
— Ray Charles
In my dreams, I never have an age.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.
— Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.
— Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you.
— Marsha Norman, The Fortune Teller
He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down déjà vu.
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.
— Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
When we can't dream any longer we die.
— Emma Goldman
...Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.
— James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy
A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:From time to time my heart is like some oakWhose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
— Arthur Rimbaud, Complete Works
Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.
— C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.
— Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow pace in a dark cocoon of loneliness so you can fly like wind, like wings, when you awaken.
— Francesca Lia Block, Dangerous Angels
About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me it´s just the contrary. Often it´s something you paid no attention to at the time -- a vague thought that you didn´t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed -- these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.
— Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
— Paul Valéry
In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.
— Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks and pencils. The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations.
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
— Akira Kurosawa
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
— Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
All that I did," she said, "everything I tried to do. All for nothing." Nothing is done entirely for nothing, said the fox of dreams. Nothing is wasted. You are older, and you have made decisions, and you are not the fox you were yesterday. Take what you have learned, and move on.
— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow-You are not wrong, who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems
All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That's why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won't.
— William Faulkner
In dreams begins responsiblities.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
— Oscar Wilde
Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams...
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.
— Brent Weeks, Shadow's Edge
Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
— William C. Dement
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone.
— Jane Green, Swapping Lives
HOW ANGELS SLEEP. Unsoundly. They toss and turn, trying to understand the mystery of the living. They know so little about what it's like to fill a new prescription for glasses and suddenly see the world again, with a mixture of disappointment and gratitude ... Also, they don't dream. For this reason, they have one less thing to talk about. In a backward way, when they wake up they feel as if there is something they are forgetting to tell each other. There is disagreement among the angels as to whether this is a result of something vestigial, or whether it is the result of the empathy they feel for the Living, so powerful it sometimes makes them weep. In general, they fall into these two camps on the subject of dreams. Even among the angels, there is the sadness of division.
— Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
If you don't build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs.
— Tony A. Gaskins Jr.
I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time, and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last.... I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.
— Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.
— Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji
Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.
— Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the doom prophets. Judge not by their words, but accept advice based on the evidence of actual results. Do not be surprised should you find a complete absence of anything mystical or miraculous in the manifested reality of those who are so eager to advise you. Friends and family who suffer the lack of abundance, joy, love, fulfillment and prosperity in their own lives really have no business imposing their self-limiting beliefs on your reality experience.
— Anthon St. Maarten
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
— Jack Kerouac
Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
— Raymond Carver, Cathedral
It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.
— Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
A dream you once were,A dream of all my realities,A dream I can no long strive forIn the wake of my manly betayals
— C. Elizabeth, Absolute Obsession
I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.
— Philip K. Dick, VALIS
I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
I crave the sweet surrender of sleep and my dreams' uncensored communication: no tiresome small talk, sucking up to impress, or tiptoeing around charged topics. Dreams are the naked truth; get ready for it.
— Judith Orloff
The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer.
— C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
— Edgar Cayce
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
— Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.
— Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
Even in dreams, you could not fall forever.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 3
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night.
— Charles A. Fisher
What you had yesterday is only memories; what you will have tomorrow is your dreams and what you will do today, let it be love.
— Santosh Kalwar
The sun shine comes, you see the shine you see the color, when night comes you the stars you see the dark the blooming moon you choose a star you follow the star it comes in your dreams you follow stars once a light bug dies you see a new star you follow the star your dreams come true.
— Demi Lovato
If there never was a night or day and memories could fade away, then we'd be nothing left but the dreams we made
— Selena Gómez
True, I talk of dreams,Which are the children of an idle brain,Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,Which is as thin of substance as the air,And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north,And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence,Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
But sleep didn't come. She could hear Jace's soft piano playing through the walls, but that wasn't what was keeping her awake. She was thinking of Simon, leaving for a house that no longer felt like home to him, of the despair in Jace's voice as he said 'I want to hate you', and of Magnus, not telling Jace the truth: that Alec did not want Jace to know about his relationship because he was still in love with him. She thought of the satisfaction it would have brought Magnus to say the words out loud, to acknowledge what the truth was, and the fact that he hadn't said them - had let Alec go on lying and pretending - because that was what Alec wanted, and Magnus cared about Alec enough to give him that. Maybe it was true what the Seelie Queen had said, after all: Love made you a liar.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.
— Jim Carrey
When you punish a person for dreaming his dreamDon't expect him to thank or forgive you.
— John Darnielle
I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.
— Meryl Streep
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible
—  who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time
The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.
— C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.
— Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
— Terry Brooks, Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace
When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure.
— Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam / The Forerunner
Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?
— Stephen King, 11/22/63
Someone smashed a flutterfler and without even thinking she touched her Stone and used Wyrd to piece its broken body back together. She filled its empty vessels with dreams and it became the stuff it used for blood. It brushed her cheek with its wings, then flew off -- dancing in the hot air.
— Robert Fanney
The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel
—  they never meet.
Melanie thinks: when your dreams come true, your true has moved. You've already stopped being the person who had the dreams, so it feels more like a weird echo of something that already happened to you a long time ago.
— M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
Dream of me," he said.Dream of you? I'm doing that while I'm awake.
— Erin McCahan, I Now Pronounce You Someone Else
When you have the same dream over and over again, your brain is trying to solve a problem. It knows there's an answer.
— Anne Osterlund, Academy 7
The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers
— William S. Burroughs
Dreams are manifestations of identities.
— Kathy Acker, Pussy, King of the Pirates
Thank God even crazy dreams come true
— Carrie Underwood
I don’t know where dreams come from. Sometimes I wonder if they’re genetic memories, or messages from something divine. Warnings perhaps. Maybe we do come with an instruction booklet but we’re too dense to read it, because we’ve dismissed it as the irrational waste product of the ‘rational’ mind. Sometimes I think all the answers we need are buried in our slumbering subconscious, int he dreaming. The booklet right there, and ever night when we lay our heads down on the pillow it flips open. The wise read it, heed it. The rest of us try as hard as we can upon awakening to forget any disturbing revelations we might have found there.
— Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever
Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically -- any way you want to look at it -- everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.
— Michael Connelly, The Brass Verdict
What’s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the commission made up. It’s up to you to make your life. Take what you have and stack it up like a tower of teetering blocks. Build your dream around that.
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.
— W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't. 
— Shannon Hale
He took the hand that wasn’t holding the bou­quet of wildflowers and stared at it, holding it so tightly that she thought he might crack her bones. Then his hold gentled. He slipped a gold ring onto her finger and lifted his gaze to hers.“I’m not a brave man; I’ll never be a hero, but I love you more than life itself, and I will until the day I die. With you by my side, I’m a better man than I’ve ever been alone. I’m scared to death that I’ll let you down, but I won’t run this time. I’ll stand firm and face the challenge and work hard to see that you never have any regrets. You told me once that you wanted to share a corner of my dream. Without you, Amelia, I have no dream. With you, I have everything I could ever dream of wanting.”Tears burned her eyes as he glanced back at the preacher. “I’m done.”-Houston to Amelia as his wedding vow.
— Lorraine Heath, Texas Destiny
You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand.
— Paulo Coelho
If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable
— Ilyas Kassam
His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just another one of them
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
Put work into your dreams.
— Lesley D. Nurse, 19 Reasons Why He Really Left You Honey!
We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up?
— Helen Hollick, The Kingmaking
We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.
— C.G. Jung
She sleeps. And now she wakes each day a little less. And, each day, takes less and less nourishment, as if grudging the least moment of wakefulness, for, from the movement under her eyelids, and the somnolent gestures of her hands and feet, it seems as if her dreams grow more urgent and intense, as if the life she lives in the closed world of dreams is now about to possess her utterly, as if her small, increasingly reluctant wakenings were an interpretation of some more vital existence, so she is loath to spend even those necessary moments of wakefulness with us, wakings strange as her sleepings. Her marvellous fate - a sleep more lifelike than the living, a dream which consumes the world.'And, sir,' concluded Fevvers, in a voice that now took on the sombre, majestic tones of a great organ, 'we do believe . . . her dream will be the coming century.'And, oh, God . . . how frequently she weeps!
— Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
There's no point having wishes if you don't at least try to do them
— Sally Nicholls, Ways to Live Forever
A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...
— H.P. Lovecraft, Night Ocean et autres nouvelles
People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue. They also know that the real glory of dreams lies in their atmosphere of unlimited freedom. It is not the freedom of the dictator, who enforces his own will on the world, but the freedom of the artist, who has no will, who is free of will. The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control. Great landscapes create themselves, long splendid views, rich and delicate colours, roads, houses, which he has never seen or heard of...
— Karen Blixen, Out of Africa
Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
— Liz Smith
Jesus was saying that you can't have a larger life with restricted attitudes.
— Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn’t last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind.”That’s how it is with dreams,” said Priscilla. “They’re the perfect crime.
— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
They tell you: Follow your dreams. Listen to your spirit. Change the world. Make your mark. Find your inner voice and make it sing. Embrace failure. Dream. Dream and dream big. As a matter of fact, dream and don’t stop dreaming until your dream comes true.I think that’s crap.I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, powerful, engaged people? Are busy doing.
— Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.
— Richard Siken
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.
— P.C. Cast, Hunted
when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us
— Anne Rice, The Mummy
They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.
— Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
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
You,” he says, before the door closes all the way. “I often dream of you.
— Sangu Mandanna, The Lost Girl
Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.
— Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.
— Laura     Miller, Butterfly Weeds
I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.
— N. Scott Momaday
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
— Aeschylus
...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.
— William Shakespeare, The Tempest
For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.
— Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
For you, a comet, under a blue sky, leaves trail of color,For you, a star, dreams of being able to kiss you, dream to hear your voiceFor you, full moon, keep vigil for you, my girl, keep vigil for you, my love.
— Válgame, Zori 2ª Parte
Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day.
— Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Mama said, "Dreams are different to real life but important too.
— Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream
— Gustave Flaubert
Goals are dreams with deadlines.
— Diana Scharf
Don't run back inside, darlin', you know just what I'm here for. So you're scared and you're thinkin' we ain't that young any more...Show a little faith! There's magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey, you're all right.
— Bruce Springsteen
Whether you approach your dreams on soft feet or in a breathless run, just so long as you acknowledge that your dreams are valuable and worthy of pursuing, then you’ve made it.
— Devon Monk
As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.
— Sarah Dessen
The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.
— Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer
You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.
— Stephen King, Dreamcatcher
Fer in our dreams we find ourselves. Who we were. Who we are. Who we can become. Sleep. Dream.
— Moira Young, Rebel Heart
Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect... 
— Jack Johnson
Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?
— Gustave Flaubert
Follow your Dreams - They give pathway to the wonder of who you are.
— Debbie Burns, Tukie Tales: A New Beginning for a Better Tomorrow
I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.
— Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places: Stories
And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking into these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve, except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination. What you believe to be possible will always come to pass - to the extent that you deem it possible. It really is as simple as that.
— Anthon St. Maarten
How you ever gonna reach the starsIf you never get off the ground?
— Big Time Rush
Dreams won't always take you on a straight path to destiny but they're usually related to what your soul wants for you. They'll force you to ask yourself the hard questions, they'll kick your ass and more importantly, they'll turn you on.
— Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
...because people who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation. It's a way for people to be honest without telling the truth.
— Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life.
— Margaret Atwood
In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.
— Fernando Pessoa
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
— Belva Davis
We all need to have dreams. The question is, does the dream control you or do you control the dream?
— Robin Jones Gunn, Surprise Endings
Follow your dreams. I am not saying it’s going to be easy, but I am saying it’s going to be worth it. – Moffat Machingura
— Moffat Machingura
He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of torrential downpour, she was exquisitely real, and she, too, seemed content to go on sitting there forever.
— Anna Godbersen, Splendor
She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.
— Neil Gaiman
Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It must therefore satisfy both pride and reason, two irreconcilable terms.
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
It is just my imagination that flies,While she is wrapped up in her bedsheetslike a nest.
— Kiera Woodhull, Chaos of the Mind
Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.
— Siri Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves
Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.
— Michelle Tea
Othalas: Words. What are they but shadows on a page or howling on the wind? They are as ever-changing as the mists below us and it is just as easy to lose sense of yourself among them. I am older than most sorcerers so what I know may, indeed, be close to the truth. Magic, wyrd, words, dreams, they all come from the spirit. Within them lie both power and peril. For to misuse any is to warp your sense of self. To lie in words, or in magic, or in dreams -- that is how you become lost. The lights you see, they were lost long before they came to the Vale. 
— Robert Fanney
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
— C.G. Jung
Yes, if it is meant to be, it will be. In the meantime, create your own fate. Plan big and dream bigger.
— Destiny Booze
Hell was not a pit of fire and brimstone. Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you.
— Lisa Kleypas, Seduce Me at Sunrise
There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one.
— Frances Clark
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
— Terence McKenna
What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.
— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
You never know. Maybe when we’re dreaming…we’re more lucid than when we are awake.
— Katherine Angela Yeboah
When the Deep Purple falls,Over sleepy garden walls, And the stars begin to flicker in the sky,Thru the mist of a memoryYou wander back to me,Breathing my name with a sigh.In the still of the night,Once again I hold you tight, Tho' you're gone, your love lives onWhen moonlight beams.And as long as my heart will beatLover, we'll always meetHere in my Deep Purple dreams.
— Rebecca Wells
There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.
— Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
I'm watching a dream I'll never wake up from.-Spike Speigel
— Keiko Nobumoto
Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.
— Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. Much more than a dreamer is required to bring it to reality; but the dream must be there first.
— Robert K. Greenleaf, Servant As Leader
I’d rather fail miserably pursuing my dreams than succeed at something I have to settle for
— Katie Kacvinsky, First Comes Love
I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous, gauze-like, through which everything one sees in a dream seems, paradoxically, much clearer. A pond becomes a lake, a breeze becomes a storm, a handful of dust is a desert, a grain of sulphur in the blood is a volcanic inferno. What manner of theater is it, in which we are at once playwright, actor, stage manager, scene painter and audience?
— W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn
The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while.
— Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go
I had a dream about you. It's been a while since I could remember any of my dreams, and still, this one has left me with such strong impression. Even now, when I am fully awake, your face flashes before my eyes. It's a face I can totally relate to, as if it wasn't any more yours than it is mine. Terrifying thing, you know? I can't say I've felt that sort of intimacy with anyone. For a moment you knew all my secrets, without me even having to tell them. For a moment I even knew them myself…While I was looking into your eyes, I suddenly started to realize things about myself that were unspoken for years, like fragments of my inner life that were deeply repressed. It’s hard to distinguish if they were buried inside because dealing with them was such a dirty work, or if leaving them unnamed meant that it was not possible to define them precisely enough, so they would keep their true meaning. Perhaps, all this life that I've known so far was in fact no more but a dream about living. The only thing that has kept me in touch with reality was you…I know it comes as a surprise, and you may be wondering why it took me so long to come clean. You also may be wondering how come you've never noticed before. I've tricked you on purpose, yes, and you must realize it really has nothing to do with you. It’s always been me. This is why, seeing you in my dream like that, came out as a shock. You also must forgive me. You must forgive me because I know how it looks like, that everything we ever shared was a lie, and it wasn't…I am more of an illusionist that a deceiver, but it all comes from being in fact, a very private person. Even if it was true that you knew me better than anyone, I’d never admit it. I’d rather dig my own heart out, with a rotten spoon, than admitting it. I may let people in my own little world occasionally, but I would never let them be aware of it. I don’t throw my intimacy in front of others, especially when I care. The more I care, the less I give away, and this is something for you to understand, and grant me your forgiveness. I didn't play my tricks on you in order to deceive you, but rather to save myself, and maybe even deceive myself as well. I’ve had hidden my feelings for you so deeply that I've learned to live with them, as if any other casualty. I have done wrong to myself as much as I did to you, and I don’t know if I can forgive myself. So now I wonder, could you forgive me without feeling sorry for me? I certainly don’t deserve your pity. Especially not now that I am awake.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic, Dreaming is for lovers
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny... It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your destiny. It prepares your spirit and you will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.
— Elbert Hubbard
By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much less sympathetic toward her.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
deeds cannot dream what dreams can do
— E.E. Cummings
What if you were wrong? What if everything you ever believed was a lie? What if you missed your opportunity because you didn't know your worth? What if you settled on familiar, but God was trying to give you something better? What if you decided not to go backwards, but forward? What if doing what you have never done before was the answer to everything that didn't make sense? What if the answer wasn't to be found in words, but in action? What if you found the courage to do what you really wanted to do and doing it changed your whole life?
— Shannon L. Alder
Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality
— Oliver Sacks
Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?
— Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen
I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
— Bob Dylan
Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.
— Neil Gaiman, The Doll's House
That’s what a good wife does, keeps your dreams alive even when you don’t believe anymore
— Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Myth