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

yesterday

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

Kahlil Gibran

truest

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau

shadow

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

William Shakespeare

real

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

Havelock Ellis

awake

To be awake is to be alive.

Henry David Thoreau

theory

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Thomas Jefferson

path

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

Anatole France

gotta

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

Oscar Hammerstein II

nourishment

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

Dorothy Gilman

responsible

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses in one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

Sigmund Freud

enjoy

dreamstations marks its one year anniversary today.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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)