triumph

"A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance."

Stanislaw Lem

gaze

"Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream."

George Linley

(photo: farm4Flickr)

nature

"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

John Updike

reality

"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?"

George Moore

deferred

"What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? . . . Or does it explode?"

Langston Hughes

life

"Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."

Les Miserables

vision

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."

Japanese Proverb

best way

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

Paul Valery

illustrations

"Dreams are ... illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you."

Marsha Norman

certainty

"When I consider this carefully,
I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream.
How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?"

Descartes

travel

(Banana Republic ad campaign, 1990s)

real

"Dreams are real while they are happening. Can we say anymore about life."

Havelock Ellis

(photo: best of National Geographic)

submerged

"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

Virginia Woolf

unison

"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."

Anais Nin

tread softly

"I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

William Butler Yeats

no right

"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."

Marian Wright Edelman

trust

"The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams."

Elizabeth Gilbert

there are

"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."

Janos Arany

best

The best love affairs are those we never had.

Norman Lindsay

necessary

"Dreams are necessary to life."

Anais Nin

wondered

"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

safely insane

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."

William Dement

aout 1...

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Eleanor Roosevelt