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

only

Only do what your heart tells you.

Princess Diana of Wales

attempt

It is the man's dreams and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.

Francis Ford Coppola

equal

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

E.M. Cioran

characteristics

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

freedom

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

forgotten

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Elias Canetti

prophets

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

follow

Follow your bliss.

Joseph Campbell

purpose

Dreams, ideas and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.

Steven Callahan

handful

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

Leo Burnett

through

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Emily Bronte