trace

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

Walter de la Mare

purpose

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

Steven Callahan

broken

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream--whatever that dream might be.

Pearl S. Buck

higher

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

pause

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

flight

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Leonard da Vinci

limits

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

James Broughton

before

Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

empower

Empower your dreams with deadlines.

H. Jackson Brown

stayed

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

Emily Bronte

grow into

Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them.

Josie Bisset

real

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambara

hope

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle

well-lived

Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.

Sanskrit poem

led

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

Anonymous

why not

You see things and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and i say 'Why not?'

George Bernard Shaw

freedom

Those who give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve either one.

Benjamin Franklin

executed

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

failed

All of us have failed to reach our dream of perfection, so I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkner

stuff

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Shakespeare (The Tempest)

reality

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

space

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Belva Davis

more

We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more intelligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.

Erich Fromm

compared

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

Michel de Montaigne

blotting

Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows.

Anonymous

remnants

Channels are blocked in the mind, from the day. Lie down in blackness of night, forgotten remnants rush to the mind, or creeping slowly appear in the dreams.

Nathaniel LeTonnerre

angels

Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.

Elias Freeeman

excursions

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

Henri Amiel

life

Life is not lost dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Stephen Vicent Benét

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

light

There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.

N.P. Willis

awakened

To realize your true nature, you must wait for the right moment and the right conditions. When the time comes, you are awakened as if from a dream. You understand that what you have found is your own and doesn't come from anywhere outside.

Lord Buddha

dream

In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

add

What I take from my night, I add to my days.

Leon de Rotrou

happiness

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Dale Carnegie

some

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

Denis Waitley

hold

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

Langston Hughes

can dream

The problems of this world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

John F. Kennedy

imagination

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhammad Ali

sacrifice

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Charles Du Bos

discover

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

W. Clement Stone

motivated

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing -- then we truly live life.

Greg Anderson

inspire

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

separates

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

real

Dreams are real while they are happening. Can we say anymore about life?

Havelock Ellis

illusion

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Voltaire

chase

Some people dream when they sleep and some stay awake to chase that dream.

Anonymous

reality

Dreams are the reality you are trying to create.

Paul Quilty

careful

Be careful what you wear to bed at night, you never know who you’ll meet in your dreams.

Anonymous

dream

All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allen Poe