opportunity

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

sunrise

He who binds to himself a joy. Does the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity's sunrise.

William Blake

optimism

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Voltaire

generosity

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Albert Camus

notion

Like alice in wonderland/ The dream takes you by the hand/ Inside emotions that you might not feel/ If by some notion the dream was not real.

Culture Club

fence

Silence is a fence around wisdom.

German Proverb

reality

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Charles Baudelaire

reason

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reason is necessary.

Ashleigh Brilliant

chains

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

charity

More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-- our very civilization -- is like the axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

safest

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Voltaire

artists

Civilization is as great as its dreams and its dreams are dreamt by artists.

Anonymous

don't spoil

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the thing you only hoped for.

Epicurus

happiness

Dreaming is happiness; waiting is life.

Victor Hugo

infinite

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and i'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

devour

Let the dream devour your life so that the life does not devour your dreams.

Saint-Exupéry

power

I believe everything we dream can come to pass through our union/ we can turn the world around/ we can turn the earth's revolution/ we have the power/ People have the power...

Patti Smith, People Have the Power

lose

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

William Faulkner

ourselves

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Lord Buddha

exceed

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp. Or what’s a heaven for?

Robert Browning

true nature

Ordinary riches can be stolen: real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Oscar Wilde

eraser dust

Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page. They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day. Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then. Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.

Edgar Allan Poe

faith

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Voltaire

endures

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

Edward Kennedy

may say

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

grow old

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

reason

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Adlai E. Stevenson

night

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Vincent Van Gogh

talents

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Eric Hoffer

intolerable

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

Anatole France

expectation

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Voltaire