answers

Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask.

X-Files

messages

Dreams are nature's answering service - don't forget to pick up your messages once in a while.

Sarah Crestinn

regrets

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore

key

The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true.

Anonymous

hope

Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.

Anonymous

always

We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.

George Lucas

microscope

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

Erich Fromm

dream

I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.

Steven Spielberg

accomplish

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

forge

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A Froude

remember

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Harriet Tubman

(internet photo)

thoughts

Dreams are only thoughts you didn't have time to think during the day.

Author unknown

(painting: Salvador Dali)

memory

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

Kahlil Gibran

untapped

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dale E. Turner

(photo: NatGeo)

hope

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Diogenes

writing

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Jorge Luis Borges

power

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Goethe

apart

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time.

Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbs...)

future

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

dust

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

Anonymous

daytime

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Gail Godwin

leaps

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem

the dream

The Dream Lives On!!

Ted Kennedy

(web photo)

character

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Henry David Thoreau

(press photo: Barack at the Grand Canyon)

enough

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

M.C. Escher

(drawing: M.C. Escher)

awakening

"We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

Baron Friedrich von Hardenberg

hold fast

"Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

Langston Hughes

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