occurs

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Andy Rooney

reach deep

There is no need to reach high for stars. They are already within you - just reach deep in yourself!

Tas Soft Wind

awaken

As you awaken, may your dreams greet you by name and may you answer, "yes."

Mary Ann Radmacher

accomplish

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

Anatole France

a dream

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

looking

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

meant

You are meant to be whatever you dream of becoming.

Edmund O'Neill

only

Only as high as I reach can I grow
Only as far as I seek can I go
Only as deep as I look can I see
Only as much as I dream can I be.

Karen Ravn

fine line

There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.

B. Quilliam

stars

The stars exist that you might know how high your dreams can soar.

Anonymous

trust

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Kahlil Gibran

truest

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau

illusion

Nothing is sadder that the death of an illusion.

Arthur Koestler

grant

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Michelangelo

wings

A man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhammad Ali

don't know

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

Anonymous

poor

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Lewis Carroll

difficult

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert Goddard

2011

wishing you a very happy new year. hoping for all of us that 2011 will be a better year than 2010.

may peace prevail on earth

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true

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!

Edwin Markham

why not

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw

experience

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Aldous Huxley

illustrations

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

Marsha Norman

chase

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

truth

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

block

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.

Mary Manin Morrissey

methods

These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.

Claude M. Bristol

experience

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

begin

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Mother Teresa

patience

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

George Jackson

dangerous

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King, Jr

future

The future depends on what you do today.

Mahatma Gandhi

ability

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

dawn

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

silence

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

power

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Voltaire

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

create

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Victor Hugo

vision

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Jung

democracy

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus and heaven.

H.L. Mencken

cure

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

necessary

Dreams are necessary to life.

Anais Nin

submerged

Yet it is our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

trust

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

Elizabeth Gilbert

aim

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Oscar Wilde

waking up

We are close to waking up when we dream that we are dreaming.

Novalis

dreamers

We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dream.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

illustrations

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

Marsha Norman

compared

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

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

tomorrow

Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.

Dean Marshall