literature

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Aldous Huxley

felt

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was whether they were enjoying it.

Douglas Adams

paths

I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.

Chinese Proverb

convincing

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

Robert Collier

embarrasses

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

Voltaire

mask

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? "How many can say," asks the Aztec poet, "that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?"

Joseph Campbell

stardust

It is never easy to keep reaching for dreams. Strength and courage can sometimes be lonely friends. But those who do reach the stars, walk in stardust.

Beli Sullivan

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pregnant

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Voltaire

make it so

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

Belva Davis

hushed

With finger on her solemn lip, Night hushed the shadowy earth.

Margaret Deland

mad

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Phyllis Diller

need

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

habits

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Aldous Huxley

life

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Les Miserables

butterfly

I do not know whether I was a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Chuang-tzu

void

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Voltaire

suppresses

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Jorge Luis Borges

light

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

N.P. Willis

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waiting

We are the change we have been waiting for.

Barack Obama

one half

One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

blessed

Thou dream, O blessed dream! Spread far and near thy veil of haze, Tone down the lines so sharp, Make smooth what roughness seems.

Swami Vivekananda

truth

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

change

Change is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Anatole France

seem

In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called.

Francisco de Quevedo

pragmatic

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Aldous Huxley

ignorance

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Aldous Huxley

change

A change in time, a change in place / A change of jobs, a change of pace / change your style or change your friends / change your path and change the end

Ethan Allen

self-evident

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

ready

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

silence

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Leroy Brownlow

truth

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Voltaire

fly

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

faithful

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Andre Gide

cognizant

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Edgar Allan Poe

happiness

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

Dale Carnegie

deciding

There exists only one person who has the power to cast the deciding vote that will kill your dream... you!

Dr. Robert Schuller

dream within

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

Edgar Allan Poe

think

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Will Durant

translate

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.

Heywood Broun

senses

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

Amos Bronson

existence

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Edgar Allen Poe

remember

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the "Titanic" who waved off the dessert cart.

Erma Bombeck

success

Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it.

Anonymous

desire

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

Ayn Rand

wishful

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

Mary Martin

first

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Carl Sandburg

change

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

open eyes

Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.

T.E. Lawrence

peering

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Edgar Allen Poe

die

Dreams don't die until we let them.

James Ojala