imitates

Paradoxically though it may seem it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

art

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

incredible

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan

do not learn

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Aldous Huxley

landscape

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul, we search for its outline all our lives.

Josephine Hart

look

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

outside

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time.

Milan Kundra

choose

To live is to choose. But to choose well you must know ho you are and what you stand for, whre you want to go and why you want to get there.

Kofi Annan

imagination

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

wisdom

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams.

Hugh Walpole

we

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

Erich Maria Remarque

dreams

Some dreams really do come true. That said, most dreams are weird as shit.

Brian K. Vaughan

still

If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.

Joyce Chapman

quality

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

people

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

same

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

decide

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

time

We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

you

Dream your dream; and realize that you are more than just the dreamer, you are the point of origin for its reality.

Steve Maraboli

build

Build your castle of dreams but don't live in it.

Marty Rubin

give up

Those who give up dreams, do injury to their own hears and cannot possibly enjoy a profound sense of fulfillment in the end.

Daisaku Ikeda

better

All I want is to sleep- -to dream. Life is better in dreams.

Christina Westover, Poisoning Sylvie

dreams

Dreams won't always take you on a straight path to destiny, but they're usually related to what your soul wants for you.

Kelly Cutrone

people

There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Douglas Everett

wonders

I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear.
Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.

Neil Gaiman, Fables & Reflections

everything

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream.

Gustave Flaubert

tricks

It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.

Bram Stoker, Dracula

desires

Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.

P.C. Cast

live

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

goes on

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes one.

Robert Frost

new year

New Year - a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.

Alex Morritt