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

secret spot

In your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go and sheltered so may thrive and grow.

Louise Driscoll

fellow-workers

Those who are asleep are fellow-workers in what goes on in the world.

Heraclitus

river

You know a dream is like a river, ever changin' as it flows, and the dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes. Trying to learn from what's behind you, and never knowing what's in store, makes each day a constant battle, just to stay between the shores.

Garth Brooks (The River)

illusion

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Voltaire

carry

Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream.

Bonnell

melt

Having a dream that you don't pursue is like buying an ice cream cone and watching it melt all over your hand.

Frank Papasso

achieved...

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Orison Swett Marden

beauty...

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Rumi

true

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Alfred Tennyson

hopes

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Matthew Prior

myths

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Joseph Campbell

night

The night walked down the sky with moon in her hand.

Frederick L. Knowles

vain

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.

Anatole France

free

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Voltaire

calendar

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.

Charles Richards

forever

The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another that will last forever.

Anatole France

combine

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence if full of music.

Marcel Marceau

vision

Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.

Jonathan Swift

accomplish

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

Anatole France

heights

No one can predict to what heights you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings.

Anonymous

stay awake

To make your dreams come true, you have to stay awake.

Anonymous

stuff

We are such stuff as dreams are made on.

William Shakespeare

draw

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

B. Quilliam

looking

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

Oscar Wilde

mountain

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

Anonymous

believe

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

ideals

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

Carl Schurz

alone

I am alone but my dreams are not.

Anonymous

all

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

Edgar Allen Poe

believe

Try to believe that if you take the leap you'll be taught how to fly.

Anonymous

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

(internet photo)