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But you do just the opposite. You strengthen your thought-waves. You are seized by worthless thoughts and you co-operate with them. You are sitting alone, there is nothing to do and you start thinking of fighting the coming election. The dream begins! Nothing will please you short of reaching the president’s chair. You have become a president in your dream. There are felicitations and you are enjoying them thoroughly! You never stop to think – what kind of stupidity is this! What are you doing? You are just giving energy to worthless fantasies. Your mind is filled with useless illusions of this kind.The constant flow of dreams eats up a large amount of your energy. It is not for free! You purchase it at the cost of your life.If we examine human life in detail, we will find that ninety-nine percent of the life is lost in fruitless dreams like this. Some dream of wealth, others of power, and others of various conquests. What will you gain even if you attain them all?Thought-waves are nothing but dreams. Do not strengthen them. When the dream starts running within, shake yourself and break the dream as quickly as you can.
— Osho, Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
There is only one way to make your dream a reality: make the decision and then not change it.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
…And my heart openedlike a flower under sky,its petals of desire,its stamens of dreams…
— Federico García Lorca
Dreaming By Day, Wishing On Stars At Night...
— Nyki Mack
No matter how talented Richie was or how much shit he talked about what he could do, deep down he just didn't believe it'd happen. He was living day to day: you talk about your dreams, you boast about your talent, and you cop the Foamposites the day they come out because life is simply a collection of small victories. I didn't want to go out like that.
— Eddie Huang, Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir
It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
With every dream and with every love, you will have to die and be reborn, to leave the known behind and surrender to the mystery.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D., Sleepers: A Little Book on How to Find Hope, Meaning and the Courage to Fall in Love with Your Dreams
n the pursuit of dreams, your unshakable commitment is the only force more powerful than your thoughts, feelings and beliefs. Commitment will pull you towards the fulfilment of your idea even when you doubt yourself.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D., Sleepers: A Little Book on How to Find Hope, Meaning and the Courage to Fall in Love with Your Dreams
In the pursuit of dreams, your unshakable commitment is the only force more powerful than your thoughts, feelings and beliefs. Commitment will pull you towards the fulfilment of your idea even when you doubt yourself.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D., Sleepers: A Little Book on How to Find Hope, Meaning and the Courage to Fall in Love with Your Dreams
Dear music,I’m writing you this letter to thank you.Thank you for when you’re here, you catalyse my imagination.Thank you for this ineffable thing you bring, which makes the experience of writing so much better.Thank you for making real and palpable what is not.Thank you for being generous. Humans rarely are. You give breath to my characters. Moreover you give a mainspring to my tears, my laughs and my heart-bleedings. Actually, you give a purpose to Life, even if it’s just the one I created in my head, in the deepest abyss of my fantasies. Thank you for not judging me for that, by the way.Thank you because you make me wanna love. Life, people, nature… Everything. I can even say that sometimes, you make me fall in love of my own protagonists, my own scenes, my own jokes… I sound mad, I know, but believe me, I’m not. Well, not completely.Thank you for allowing me to travel without spending a cent. That’s pretty cool of you. I’ve even been in places never visited. Places only you and I will ever know.Thank you for your loyalty. I know I can rely on you every time, in every places. If I could live forever, I’d stay with you for a thousand year at least, until my dreams, as crazy and odd as they may be, became more authentic than my own reality. ‘Cause you know, reality sucks.Love, a girl who really likes you
— Alaska Berry
Because a door slammed shut, we assume that our dreams were slammed shut with it. Yet before we surrender to a closed door, it might be wise to take a moment and consider the fact that any dream is far too big not to have a couple of back doors.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.
— Catherine Lacey, The Answers
Your mind can find all the excuses why your dreams are not possible but you will not be able to fight with your mind the stronger pull of your heart.(from The Amazing You movie)
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
He excused himself for a nap, and this day blended into his dreams like like years blended into a life, unseen but still felt, the line between memory and present always bleeding.
— Catherine Lacey, The Answers
Now that the day is almost done, the world of glass recedes, the butterfly threat diminishes. I imagine that we're both here in this bed, that my invisible body is nestled against hers. We are breathing at the same pace, our chests rising and falling in unison. We have no need to whisper, because at this distance, all we need is thought. Our eyes close at the same time. We feel the same sheets against us, the same night. Our breath slows together. We split into different versions of the same dreams. Sleep takes us at the exact same time.
— David Levithan, Every Day
Sadly, I put my dreams to bed long before they ever had the chance to get tired.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
We all have the DNA of an entrepreneur.Some are building their own dreams.While most are building other people's dreams. Entrepreneurs are Dream Builders. Are you building yours?
— Farshad Asl
If you want to vanish then vanish away, don't vanish into my dreamsIf an escape is what you are looking for, don't take me along with you I let you go a long time ago, then why are you still here If the memory of you wishes to fade awayWhy do you go on and torture my soul
— Evy Michaels
One eye open. One still in a dream
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
We start climbing the stairs but after a while start dreaming of the elevators, we leave the current moment & start thinking about our wishful moment. It’s good to dream, but once we imagine being in a superior position, our dedication & efforts towards the current moment seems unimportant. Remember every moment is important, be the best & leave a mark on every lived moment.
— Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
Most people say use your head; I say use your heart. It will guide you closer to where you want to be. The head should be following the heart, not the other way around.
— Kim Ha Campbell, Inner Peace Outer Abundance
Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.
— Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
One of these days, I'm going to astral project myself up into the skies," he boasted. "I'll be going to the stars and the moon. I want to fly and see what's up there."I want to go up to the sky," he said, looking at his aunt, "from star to star.
— Charles R. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
— Tupac Shakur
She leaves a tiny part of her heart everywhere she travels and memories from the place fill up the void in her heart and soul.
— Yogini Patil
Are not dreams as much a part of living as waking life is?
— Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.
— Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
I can do anything. I can be anything. No one ever told me I couldn't. No one ever expressed this idea that I was limited to any one thing, and so I think in terms of what's possible, not impossible.
— Whoopi Goldberg, Book
We are here to create our dreams. We are here to make our life so beautifully true to ourselves that it can never be replicated, a stunning masterpiece added to the world.
— Avina Celeste
Don’t let your day dreams become your personally living nightmare.
— Richie Norton
If you run fast enough, you can still catch those dreams. Don't give up yet!
— Charmaine J Forde
I'll always be the yearning poet bleeding ink chasing stars drunk on dreams.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
Without leaps of the imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning
— Gloria Steinem
She's just a girl who dreams too deeply for this world.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
The power of a boy's dream is one of life's little miracles, the way it wraps itself around the heart and remains through old age to the last breath.
— Tom Verducci, The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse
The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the safely marked general highways of the day, but the adventure of the special, dimly audiblecall that comes to those whose ears are open within as well as without
— Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
One day we wake from sleep to wander through this tale of dreams with wings fluttering lighter than love free.
— Todd Crawshaw
The Big Dream shattered splinters into a thousand little dreams.
— Marty Rubin
The work you have to do to accomplish your needs and desires is going to be a harder road than working on the needs and desires for someone else.
— Kim Ha Campbell, Inner Peace Outer Abundance
They will talk about you and it won't always be good. You won't even know them but they will critique you - and judge you - and everything you stand for. Their words will cut through your heart-strings and make you question the hopes and dreams that have gnawed your soul since birth. I warn you, because I believe your unique gift of expression needs to be shared. Resist cowering down and holding back for fear of rejection. Spread those creative wings and create. But, prepare yourself. Because naysayers are not a possibility, they are a guarantee.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
My life, as it passes thus, was indeed hateful to me, and it was during sleep alone that I could taste joy. O blessed sleep!
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Your imagination can take you to the best and worst places. It is a ship on a sea of dreams and it's up to you to steer it.
— Aliya Whiteley, The Beauty
Confronted afterward, she claimed no knowledge of that bedroom tryst; she did not intend to be held responsible for men's dreams.
— Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem, 1692
Little dove, tread carefully in your dreams. You are not alone in them. Others seek them too.
— H.S. Crow
Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
— J.M.Barrie
The dreams of childhood—its airy fables; its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond: so good to be believed-in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown, for the least among them rises to the stature of a great Charity in the heart, suffering the little children to come into the midst of it, and to keep with their pure hands a garden in the stony ways of this world
— Charles Dickens, Hard Times
With the rumble of the waterfall in the distance, I slipped into sleep and dreamed of a red-haired girl holding a posy of white flowers. The words of Mr. Noyes's poem crept from the pages of my picture book and tiptoed into my mind. "Then you blow your magic vial, / Shape it like a crescent moon, / Set it up and make your trial, / Singing, 'Fairies, ah, come soon!
— Hazel Gaynor, The Cottingley Secret
All what you seek is within you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
She could stand to think that life’s experiences, good and bad, died with the body, but she couldn’t bear to believe that the dreams vanished too, those exquisite flights of reverie that never actually happened. All those experiences you can have for free. How could they burn and turn to ash? She would disappear one day, too, both her flesh and the woman she dreamed herself to be.
— Jill Ciment, Act of God
For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud. (Albus Dumbledore)
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
You wish you had not come. If there were not so many around, you would reach out your arms, with the prayer on your lips for it all to come back to you. It seems cruel, cruel, to give us such a vision; to let us dream and drift through heaven for six months, and then to take it out of our lives.
— Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
She dreams more often than she sleeps
— zakaria zaki
Lewis exasperated her, always talking about life before the Plague and how it would be if everything was different. He was a dreamer. “It would be nice, but it’s not gonna happen, Lewis. You shouldn’t spout off talk like that, giving false hope to people. It’d be better if they focused on surviving. It’s more important than some silly dream.” “But Alice, dreams are how people get by in a place like this,” Lewis countered. His freckles faded with his smile. “We gotta find somethin’ to hold onto, else we’ll all go mad.
— J.M.  Sullivan, Alice: The Wanderland Chronicles
challenges _! no music, no dreams, no hopes,_but one has to live !
— litymunshi
With my arms wrapped around Rosebud, I dreamed of heather-topped hills and sleepy valleys and a pretty woodland stream where dragonflies danced across the water as I sat down among the ferns and the meadowsweet, waiting for the summer to find me.
— Hazel Gaynor, The Cottingley Secret
Get ready to leap into the life of your dreams!
— Virginia Toole
I moved silently across the garden, silvered with moonlight, my feet barely touching the ground. I brushed past fern and tree, following the lights across the stream, toward the cottage in the clearing where I watched a little girl surrounded by light and laughter as the fairies threaded flowers through her hair. I stood out of sight, peering through the tangled blackberry bushes, but the girl saw me, rushing forward, her hand outstretched, a white flower clasped between her fingers. "For Mammy," she said. "For my Mammy.
— Hazel Gaynor, The Cottingley Secret
Decorate your inner dreams with love, light and laughter
— Virginia  Toole
You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want.
— Joyce Rachelle
What's the differences fantasies, reality, dreams and memories. It's all the same, just noises.- Ghost in The Shell
— Deyth Banger
She sighed. “I can’t help it. I worry for you when you lead these patrols. I don’t sleep until you return."His features softened. “Then you don’t dream of me when I’m gone,
— Grace Draven, Eidolon
Follow your inner dreams
— Ginny Toole
When you start dreaming- what’s there to boast?Life may treat you like a living ghostBrokenness haunts you until you perishDeath will bring you nothing to cherish
— Munia Khan
Come on, Doctor... we got places to go.
— Stephen King, Pet Sematary
I watch a spider outside my window, how she carefully weaves a dreamcatcher in the corner. Just for me.
— Frances Ivy
If I can't even protect my captain's dream, then whatever ambition I have is nothing but talk! Luffy must be the man who becomes the Pirate King!Roronoa Zoro
— Eiichirō Oda
My eyes constantly seekthe rainbow of my dreamsand I sometimes fail to be grateful for raindropsthat keeps my hope alive
— Vijaya Gowrisankar
You can make you most cherished dreams come true..
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Your drive and energy towards a goal is in direct accordance with your enthusiasm and desire for the outcome. If you feel your energy waning, if you start making excuses to not complete your tasks, it may be time to reevaluate your goals. It really helps to review your goals daily. It also really helps to spend time envisioning the outcome. A vision board can be a very useful tool to remind you what you are working so hard towards. Don't be hard on yourself if you happen to change your mind about what you want. Remember, every day we are changing and evolving. Who we were yesterday may have wanted something different than the person we are today. This is not unusual. Go with the flow. Don't be afraid to follow your dreams.
— Akiroq Brost
Your exuberance, passion, mesmerizing voice, animated actions, and eyes full of dreamscaptured my attentionso completely, that I didn't feel the bitter taste of coffee
— Vijaya Gowrisankar
The pull of lingering dreams, the strong, bitter tasteof morning coffee, the ticking clock, and horn of awaiting busform a powerful combination to kick-start the day
— Vijaya Gowrisankar
When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Visionaries create dreams out of thin air!
— Anthony T. Hincks
The best dreams are had while awake.
— Jayce O'Neal
You should never ever lose sight of your dreams.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Dreams are ideas where the collar has been removed and the leash has been thrown away.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It was a glorious illusion and she fell asleep before it ended.
— Carla Reighard, Elle's Magical Shoes
When you do it, you are not another dreamer
— Hockson Floin
Practical affairs task the human brain throughout the day. At night, the mind takes a deserved hiatus to consider the impossible and the absurd. In the carnage of our nighttime sleep tussles, the colored liqueurs of the true, the possible, fantasy, and the mythic beliefs become intermixed. Eyelets of the commonsensical and the imaginative are incorporated, and a new realism emerges out of our distilled perception of the veridical derived from the phenomenal realm of sensory reality and the philosophic world of ideals contained in the noumenal realm. The resultant psychobiologic vision immerses us in bouts of intoxicating inspiration and artistic stimulation and leaves us rickety boned and weakened after enduring a dreaded hangover of perpetual doubt laced with vagueness and insecurity.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes pertaining to whatever topics of thought intrigues the author. Writing is a twitchy art, which attempts to employ linguist building blocks handed-down from past generations. Writers’ word choices form a structure of conjoined sentences when overlaid with the lingua of modern culture. Writers attempt to emulate in concrete form the synesthesia of our personal pottage steeped in our most vivid feelings. Writing a personal essay calls for us to sort out a jungle of lucid observations and express in a tangible technique our unique interpretation of coherent observations interlaced with that effusive cascade of yearning, the universal spice of unfilled desire, which turmoil of existential angst swamps us.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Age is measured by the dreams not by the years.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
So, if anyone ever tells you no, of anyone says your voice isn't important or your dreams are too big, remember these women. They persisted and so should you.
— Chelsea Clinton, She Persisted
If you don't follow your dreams, someone else, somewhere will follow theirs. Don't get left behind.
— Anthony T Hincks
Be bold. Find the courage to dream lofty dreams of what you wish to attain. Dream big and wide. Dreaming is healthy for our imagination to explore the unknown. Before our goals can materialize, a dream must be set in motion, it must feed our soul (subconscious) a belief that exists in the unknown future.
— Machel Shull, HAPPY SOUL: 10 Steps to Happiness
Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I am the greatest obstacle to my greatest dreams.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Don’t drown dreams in the sea of yearningsMake your own choicesWake up to catch those cloudsBe the person you want to be!
— Balroop Singh, Emerging From Shadows : Poetry by Balroop Singh
Nerve endings. That’s what it all comes down to. Billions of rooted synapses, like trees entwined in erratic soil. Lightning strikes every millionth of a second, the charges scattering across the gaps and down a spinal braid.
— Ryan Galloway, Biome
Dreams are what gives us insight into what may be if we have the get up and go to do it.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Often, we speak too hastily. We claim ideals and embrace images and dreams of fantasy. We make promises without thinking about the consequences.
— Elizabeth D. Marie, Chasing Cinders
Older, but no wiser. Alas, our dreams continue to haunt us.
— Eliza Granville, Gretel and the Dark
We would sneer sometimes at how pointless it all was, all those bourgeois souls wrapping themselves in luxury, isolating themselves from the raw edges of the word; and in between puffs, we would smile, and dream of owning those streets, dreaming the same dreams that we scorned others for.
— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Numbercaste
It was not their first choice, and they did not know if they would ever feel at home there, but they could afford, finally, a small house as well as a car. They had found their own happiness, weighted by resignation: that they were who they were, that they could never truly know the thoughts of another person, that their love was bruised by the carelessness of their own parents (his mother, her father); that they would wander the world in their dreams with ghostly, intangible lovers, that their children would move from adoration of them to fury, that they and their parents would die in different cities, that they would never accomplish anything that would leave any lasting mark on the world. They had longed for this, from the first lonely moment of their childhoods when they realized they could not marry their fathers or mothers, through the burning romanticism of their teens, to the bustling search of their twenties, and there was the faint regret that this tumult and exhaustion was what they had longed for too, and soon it would be gone.
— Karen E. Bender, Refund
I had desired it with an ardor that far exceeded moderation, but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Do our dreams carry messages from the great beyond, sent by the people we have lost, or are they a reflection of our desperation and wishful thinking?
— Zeina Kassem, Crossing
Anxiety and Afraid of being rejected, have always been the killer/s of our dreams........Sounds like this story has been already told by me?
— Deyth Banger, Diary 1
You rarely get closure when you leave something unknown.
— Karishma Magvani
People always get exactly what they believe to deserve, despite the fact that they may be unhappy with what they have. We are 100% responsible for our destiny, and I would dare to say 200%, because we do create the conditions for the future we end up attracting to our lives. But, the challenge is in learning to see it, and noticing how we do this. Therefore, there's really nothing to regret about life.
— Robin Sacredfire
People always get exactly what they believe to deserve, despite the fact that they may be unhappy with what they have. We are 100% responsible for our destiny, and I would dare to say 200%, because we do create the conditions for the future we end up attracting to our life. But the challenge is in learning to see it, and noticing how we do this. Therefore, there's really nothing to regret about life.
— Robin Sacredfire
It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.
— Million Dollar Baby
I can sacrifice everything for my dreams and goals encourage me or simply leave me.
— MEET SHAH
Dreams are dreams until you make them a reality. And that won’t happen until you give up your sleep, Wake Up.
— Mayur Ramgir
The world was ersatz and actual, forged and faked, by ourselves and unseen others. Daring to attempt to absolutely sort fake from real was a folly that would call down tigers or hiccups to cure us of our recklessness. The effort was doomed, for it too much pointed past the intimate boundaries of our necessary fictions.
— Jonathan Lethem, Chronic City
There is that moment when you first wake up and your dreams are still hovering like a fine mist in the air. For a tiny fragment of time you feel as though you could choose to live in either reality. In fact, in those seconds, as the dream replays in your mind, still so fresh, it seems more real, and this world seems unreal and fuzzy. I want to make the choice to go back to the dream, to live there.
— Kitty Thomas, The Last Girl
Dreams are like the old stories where wolves are seekers always running, and women carry fire in their bare hands and light the dark paths before them.Old stories hold that the birds will fly all the miles of the world to tell your secrets to the rising moon, and men will walk over oceans of ice to find one truth.
— Tamara Rendell, Mystical Tides
The last time someone had laid out a suit and a pair of dress shoes with a ticket purchased for a faraway place, Henry had refused to go.This time, Henry refused to stay.
— Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Discarded lay all the dreamsIn the bin of unwanted thingsTill you came and set them freeAnd, to soar, gave them wings…
— Neelam Saxena Chandra
Dreams can exist but not come trueAnd if you don't believe me just ask yourselfHow can the universe know what you want,If it never hears it from you
— Kay Whitley, Out Loud: A collection of spoken word poetry
You don't have to, Henry. In here, I think my dream is big enough for the both of us.
— Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
My dreams become reality.Your dreams become forgotten.I guess that's why we're different,I don't fit into the crowd.Whereas you're part of the flock.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Everything you could ever wish for is just in reach. Work hard and never be afraid to ask for something.
— Terry Lander, Natalie's Fiendish New Headteacher
Truth is to be found in dreams,” the King said, looking down at them. From this angle, Emma could see that odd splitting of his face ended at his throat, which was ordinary skin. “Tell me, Shadowhunters: you enter a cave. Inside the cave is and egg, lit from within and glowing. You know that it beats with you dreams-not the ones you have during the day, but the ones you half-remember in the morning. It splits open.What emerges?” “A rose,” said Mark. “With thorns.” Cristina cut her eyes toward him in surprise but remained motionless. “An angel,” she said. “With bloody hands.” “A knife,” said Emma. “Pure and clean.” “Bars,” Julian said quietly. “The bars of a prison cell.
— Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
Funny thing about love, ain’t it? Sometimes it saves you and sometimes, like right then, even love isn’t enough.
— Eden Butler, Infinite Us
Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.
— Cobb
I felt myself a new species of child. Not a boy (most assuredly) but neither a (mere) girl. That skirt-bound race perpetually moving about serving tea had nothing to do with me. I had such high hopes, you see.The boundaries of the world seemed vast. I would visit Rome, Paris, Constantinople. Underground cafés presented in my mind where, crushed against wet walls, a (handsome, generous) friend and I sat discussing—many things. Deep things, new ideas. Strange green lights shone in the streets, the sea lapped nearby against greasy tilted moorings; there was trouble afoot, a revolution, into which my friend and I must— Well, as is often the case, my hopes were…not realized.
— George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
With persistent endeavour, you can fulfilled your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Dreams aren't of the mind,but of the heart.
— Lindsay Lock, Musings
Sometimes when she woke from a flabbergasting dream Liz would lie very still to see if she could net it before it fled; perfectly still, eyes closed, not moving her head, as if the slightest shift would tip the story-bearing liquid, break its fragile meniscus and spill the night’s elusive catch.
— Helen Simpson, Cockfosters
The point of dreams was never to be the affordable option, it was the one everyone else saw as a mistake and every creative person saw as an opportunity.
— Anastasia Bolinder
Who are you?” I asked.“Are we playing that game again?” she asked me with a nice smile. “Lana, sorry to disappoint you, but I really am in a hurry, so I will have to take a rain check on this. We can play later this evening, if you don’t mind!”“What game? I really mean it, who are you and why am I here?” I must have looked like I had really freaked out, and for a moment, she looked at me seriously. But then, she gave me another nice smile and kissed me on my cheek and said “Really babe, as much as I appreciate your playful morning mood, I really don’t have time now. I have a big job interview today, remember?
— Nico J. Genes, Magnetic Reverie
Suffice to say, the dream writer had a way of phrasing things. She could depict the curve of a cucumber, the shape of a sunbeam, the endearing, velvety tilt of a peach, in just such a way that she earned her living selling dreams. One simply made a selection, read it in solitude, and let it percolate till sleep. People swore they fell directly into her renderings, and one even asked if the dream writer could write a dream of dreaming forever. The dream writer could not do this, but she hired dream apprentices to expand the reach of her dreams and she wrote dreams for herself in which she would sit at a desk, pen in hand, and write even more dreams. This nearly doubled her output.
— Meia Geddes, The Little Queen
Have a dream in your head and a fire in your heart.
— Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
Being gentle doesn’t stop us fighting for our dreams.
— Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
The act of fishing – for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available – is enough.
— Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
It is important to dream big. What we imagine, we become..we achieve. Even if we don ́t go the yonder, we will reach way much farther than where we currently stand.
— Tina Sequeira, SOUL SOJOURN
May you find what you are looking for and realize it is not the answer.
— Ahmed Mostafa
I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had enough. I was at home in the places that could never be. The places found only in dreams.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
Dreams come true with much work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If all the dreams come true,would you even dream then?
— Bhavik Sarkhedi, The Weak Point Dealer
Sometimes the only things preventing your dreams from becoming realities is the long time it is taking you to start.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
Don’t just have dreams. Take actions too. To make it possible, begin every dream with a simple action and your interest will beam out.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
Be passionate about your dreams and never give sleep to your eyes until your good becomes better and your better becomes the best.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
Can someone decide to leave everything and move to a dreamland?Was it possible?if yes, how can one do it without being called crazy or a coward?
— Nico J. Genes, Magnetic Reverie
You will never be rewarded for the dreams you slept over day in day out. You will be rewarded for dreams you stay awake and achieved.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
Every Child Deserves A Chance To Live Their Own Dream
— Phil Mitchell, A Bright New Morning: An American Story
Turns out there's more than one way to achieve your dreams.
— Katy Cannon, And Then We Ran
You know that feeling when you’re suddenly startled out of a deep sleep, and you’re in that hazy middle world where you’re not sure what’s real—like maybe you actually could be chasing after an ice cream truck wearing only fishing waders and a canary yellow bridesmaid’s dress, or you’re just one answer away from winning a year’s supply of adult diapers on a Japanese game show?—SINGLE-MINDED
— Lisa Daily, Single-Minded: A Novel
And the worst thing about it was that you began to feel as if you had always lived on that ship, in that darkness, and to wonder whether sun and blue skies and wind and birds had not been only a dream.
— C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
Got a light? See? Careful. I'm everything you ever dreamed.
— Ali Smith, The Accidental
Dreams are memories we’ve lost to sleep.
— F.K. Preston
Until you let go of that bitterness in your heart, it will find a comfortable place to destroy your dreams, your sight and most times, your sleep.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
When we get too comfortable, we stop dreaming.
— Joyce Rachelle
None of us have reached the peak of perfection, but it shouldn’t stop anyone from trying to make the climb.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Never give up on things you've always dreamed of. Your dreams will become reality by your dedication and hard work.
— Hopal Green
It's like Charlie's dreamed everything he lived through here.
— Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
Don’t only think of which job to get and live on. Think about which problem to solve and the jobs will keep suggesting themselves.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
Our personal experiences and mental reasoning skills establish the range of our perception of reality. Our physical and mental abilities determine the outer perimeter regarding what we can experience and learn. Our inaugurating dreams are unlimited by physical reality and our genetic composition. There will always be an unbridgeable rift between countless combinations of human dreams and the infinity of reality, unless we accept what we are without wishing to be something else.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Discontent comes from two sources alone: Not having dreams, or not pursuing the ones you have. No one has ever died sorry who tried to turn a wish into a memory.
— John   Kramer, Blythe
Each soul lives on the verge of remembering the forgotten agreement and original dream that it carries; yet each moment can be another point when the dream of life becomes lost again. Each meaningful step we take on the path of life involves some tension between the needs of the common world and the dreams of the soul. This inherent tension can stop us in our tracks, yet can also be the source of vital energy needed for the soul to grow. Each time we remember a piece of why we came to life we pull the seeds of eternity farther into the world of time. The inner seed keeps trying to sprout, but often our fate must place us in a crossroads or nail us to a cross before we pay proper attention to it.
— Michael Meade, Fate and Destiny, The Two Agreements of the Soul
Who said you to give up on your bold dreams? Don't you know that the universe is with you to help you achieve all your bolder visions?
— Seema Brain Openers
Giving up on your dreams and still living the life is called a living hell.
— Seema Brain Openers
It is easy when you are young to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough it is your God-given right to have it... I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong in my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing...I came to appreciate that mountains make poor recepticles for dreams.
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
You did not come this far, just to come this far.
— Manoj Arora, Dream On: Every setback is a little nudge from HIM to Dream On
Anything is within reach with God's grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If there is one sin—or rather one waste—it is not doing what you have the inclination or gift for.
— Oliver
Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
I slowly lost any dream for myself. No one warned me of this, that the stars in New York can infect the light inside, that they can trap you in their shadow. Dylan was of course a star. He had achieved the thing we all came to New York wanting.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
We are all cursed. We live in the era of the curse. A world that cannot be fixed. The best thing would be an alien ship. Another planet. One with three moons. But you, I saw you in my dreams. I saw you coming. You came to heal my broken heart. That's why I named you Ahlam.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
What property is left to dreamers when every idea has been tamed and conquered? What about the poet who dreams of embracing the night sky? It's utterly impossible. And yet the thought of it sparks song and dance, poetry and philosophy.
— Roshani Chokshi, Death and Night
I know it will not happen in one day. I also know that it is definitely going to happen one day.
— Manoj Arora, Dream On
Dreams are memories. Memories are dreams. But my time with you hasn’t become a dream just yet. Because the sensation of your kisses keep me from sleep. I’m in love, God help me, I’m in love.
— F.K. Preston
My Dreams are not in my eyesMy Eyes are on my Dreams
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
Greta abides by the reasonable philosophy that there is nothing in the universe more boring than someone else's dreams.
— Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays
Many beautiful dreams die prematurely because the dreamers don’t have enough fuel to drive through the rocky roads and the patience to wait.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
That night I dreamt about the roses laid at the wrong feet—the feet of the nurse. Each bit of the dream was like a hyperlink. I pressed on one, wanting answers, and it took me to another. I could never get to the meaning at the bottom of any of the bits. When I reached for the petals of the roses, I was touching a metal seatbelt buckle in a coach, driving by night through a remote place, with a band of mist running parallel to the glass I leant against.
— Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
There is only One Man Playing your Game, You!
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
Come to my reality, but day or night, don't make me stop dreaming.
— Nico J. Genes
An invitation of a beautiful street is an invitation to walk within a dream!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It's oneiric, a beautiful, formless sequence of silver nitrate shadows, and when it ends I wonder what happened, and then I begin to rebuild it in my head
— Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
So, is it harder to dream about what you don´t have than to live in fear of losing what you do?
— Barbara Delinsky, Sweet Salt Air
She had penetrated his dream, but not in the way he penetrated hers.
— Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl
to all those who slept through the nightmare till it ended, you will remember your nightmares and it will be easier to confront them when they come again for you.
— Sherif Mekdam, The Trinity's Dream
Dreams, kindled in the fire of imagination,ignite in the brilliance of our minds,and are wrought in the work of our hands" -
— Suzy  Davies
Belief is the creed of the fearless.. Follow through your dreams religiously ,keep it running like the DNA embedded in your system... Believe
— Tare Munzara
For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.
— Pedro Calderón de la Barca
I have always wanted to leave the village and seek adventure. I long to be remembered for something, even if that something is merely the pursuit of my dreams.
— Walt Disney Company, Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Library: A Collection of Literary Quotes and Inspirational Musings
... the old Berlin – last vestige of a mysterious fête – wheeled away from the gravelled road and went lurching noiselessly across country over a grass-grown track. Beyond the hedge nothing could be seen of it but the driver's cap bobbing up and down.
— Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes
Is it true,’ she said, ‘that England is like a dream? Because one of my friends who married an Englishman wrote and told me so. She said this place London is like a cold dark dream sometimes. I want to wake up.’‘Well’, I answered annoyed, ‘that is precisely how your beautiful island seems to me, quite unreal and like a dream.’‘But how can rivers and mountains and the sea be unreal?’‘And how can millions of people, their houses and their streets be unreal?’‘More easily,’ she said, ‘much more easily. Yes a big city must be like a dream.
— Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell I hold my honey and I store my bread In little jars and cabinets of my will. I label clearly, and each latch and lid I bid, Be firm till I return from hell. I am very hungry. I am incomplete. And none can tell when I may dine again. No man can give me any word but Wait, The puny light. I keep eyes pointed in; Hoping that, when the devil days of my hurt Drag out to their last dregs and I resume On such legs as are left me, in such heart As I can manage, remember to go home, My taste will not have turned insensitive To honey and bread old purity could love.
— Gwendolyn Brooks, Selected Poems
It may sound like I am making too much out of all this, but the only way you can allow a kid to truly dream is if you expand their idea of what is currently possible. A kid who has nothing, sees nothing, and is taught nothing can only dream of breakfast. They can only hope to get to the next moment successfully. I want more than that for my kids...just like my mom wanted more than that for me. And I want them to want more than that too.
— W. Kamau Bell, The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
Cheating is very easy, try something more challenging like being faithful to yourself, dreams, and partner. After all, it is how responsible we are of ourselves, dreams, and partner that we get to mature and grow wiser and responsible.
— Kabelo Mabona
God knows who you are! God knows why you are here! Don’t live a different you! Don't disappoint God!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It's okay to judge a man but never judge his dreams.
— Kabelo Mabona
I dream that someone in space says to me: So let us rush, then, to see the world. It is shaped like an egg, covered with seas and continents, warmed and lighted by the sun. It has churches of indescribable beauty, raised to gods that have never been seen; cities whose distant roofs and smokestacks will make your heart leap; ballparks and comfortable auditoriums in which people listen to music of the most serious import; to celebrate life is recorded. Here the joy of women’s breasts and backsides, the colors of water, the shapes of trees, athletes, dreams, houses, the shapes of ecstasy and dismay, the shape even of an old shoe, are celebrated. Let us rush to see the world. They serve steak there on jet planes, and dance at sea. They have invented musical instruments to express love, peaceableness; to stir the finest memories and aspirations. They have invented games to catch the hearts of young men. They have ceremonies to exalt the love of men and women. They make their vows to music and the sound of bells. They have invented ways to heat their houses in the winter and cool them in the summer. They have even invented engines to cut their grass. They have free schools for the pursuit of knowledge, pools to swim in, zoos, vast manufactories of all kinds. They explore space and the trenches of the sea. Oh, let us rush to see this world.
— John Cheever, The Journals of John Cheever
When your dreams get fulfilled in dreams, wouldn’t you rather skip reality?
— Nico J. Genes
External relationships seem to have been emptied by a massive withdrawal of the real libidinal self. Effective mental activity has disappeared into a hidden inner world; the patient's conscious ego is emptied of vital feeling and action, and seems to have become unreal. You may catch glimpses of intense activity going on in the inner world through dreams and fantasies, but the patient's conscious ego merely reports these as if it were a neutral observer not personally involved in the inner drama of which it is a detached spectator. The attitude to the outer world is the same: non-involvement and observation at a distance without any feeling, like that of a press reporter describing a social gathering of which he is not a part, in which he has no personal interest, and by which he is bored. Such activity as is carried on may appear to be mechanical. When a schizoid state supervenes, the conscious ego appears to be in a state of suspended animation in between two worlds, internal and external, and having no real relationships with either of them. It has decreed an emotional and impulsive standstill, on the basis of keeping out of effective range and being unmoved.
— Harry Guntrip, Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self
In every dream journey, there comes a moment when you have to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.
— Mark Batterson
We do not always need to "understand" or interpret dreams to receive their gifts to heart and soul. Rather, we can circumambulate them, respect them, let their images feed our imaginations and lead us onward, just as a glimpse of ocean or lake renews and orients and refreshes us on a long drive.
— Jill Mellick, The Art of Dreaming: Tools for Creative Dream Work
I want to be somebody when I grow up. Somebody with grown-up dreams and screams for these dreams to be crossover dreams into reality.
— Nyambi Nyambi
Do not surrender your dreams based on the seasonality, chase them until they become a reality.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Two dreams and a cup of coffee later.
— F.K. Preston
To Dream The Impossible Dream, Is Something Great We All Should Do
— Sami Abouzid
Here all may see my body lie/ But not my soul, for that can fly!
— Helme Heine, Seven Wild Pigs: Eleven Picture Book Fantasies
Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff that sticks the world together. Stories are the mud from which we're all made. The power to imagine stories is the power to remake the world as we dream it.
— C. Alexander London, Moonlight Brigade
If you're afraid of your own dreams, you're welcome here in mine.
— Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
The role of United Nations is to create more smiling face and to fulfill the dreams of the innocent children of the world.
— Amit Ray, Peace on the Earth  A Nuclear Weapons Free World
You play those dimples like an exquisite orchestra, Mr. Boomer.
— Grace Willows
Just because some dreams never see light that doesn’t make us nonbelievers, they are wings to our sky and fiction makes us dream. I know the truth is fatal, especially for the stubborn’s but trust me the illusion is worse.
— Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade
There are three categories of people exist in the world; “the wanters”, “the wishers” and “the makers.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
Sometimes it might be kinder to kill a man, than to take his dreams from him.
— Mika Waltari, Egipcjanin Sinuhe, tom 2
I've left behind so many unfinished quilts in my life, beautiful pieces of dreams and intentions never fully assembled.
— K. Martin Beckner, A Million Doorways
Even the brightest of dreams-come-true had shadowy recesses.
— James Luceno, Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel