true

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!

Edwin Markham

why not

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw

experience

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Aldous Huxley

illustrations

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

Marsha Norman

chase

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

truth

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

block

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.

Mary Manin Morrissey

methods

These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.

Claude M. Bristol

experience

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

begin

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Mother Teresa

patience

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

George Jackson

dangerous

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King, Jr

future

The future depends on what you do today.

Mahatma Gandhi

ability

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

dawn

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

silence

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

power

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Voltaire

dreamer

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one.

John Lennon

create

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Victor Hugo

vision

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Jung

democracy

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus and heaven.

H.L. Mencken

cure

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

necessary

Dreams are necessary to life.

Anais Nin

submerged

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

Virginia Woolf

trust

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

aim

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Oscar Wilde

waking up

We are close to waking up when we dream that we are dreaming.

Novalis

dreamers

We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dream.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

illustrations

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

Marsha Norman

compared

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... We sleeping wake and waking sleep.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

tomorrow

Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.

Dean Marshall

hope

I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope on earth.

Abraham Lincoln

poetry

Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - is essentially poetry.

Michel Leiris

sweet dreams

I dream of love / I dream of faith / I dream of hope / I dream of culture / I dream of life / And I dream sweet dreams.

Tsunami HiroshiSu

triumph

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

Stanislaw Lem

reverie

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

Gaston Bachelard

careful

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

James Baldwin

happiness

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley

dream beings

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Jack Kerouac

submission

Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.

Neil Kendall

continually

It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do hear it.

Carl Jung

together

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Eugéne Ionesco

dream

If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

Oscar Hammerstein

view

For anything new to emerge there must first be a dream, an imaginative view of what might be.

Robert K. Greenleaf

need

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

Dorothy Gilman

possible

We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.

Maria Irene Fornes

don't use

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

M.C. Escher

distinguishes

What distinguishes us from one another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.

Joseph Epstein

can't

When we can't dream any longer, we die.

Emma Goldman

scriptures

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

Umberto Eco