attain

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

Kahlil Gibran

nature

All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.

Robert Collier

trifle

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

John Christian Bovee

invested

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Saul Bellow

achieve

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

James Allen

desire

You are what your deep driving desire is.

Anonymous

moments

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them they are gone.

George Eliot

serviceable

The waking mind ... is the least serviceable in the arts.

Henry Miller

ceaselessly

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

Gaston Bachelard

experience

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

Aldous Huxley

stars

Dreams are like stars... you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.

Anonymous

why not

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

George Bernard Shaw

advances

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

overrated

Reality is overrated.

Anonymous

remold

Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart's desire.

John Dewey

new eyes

The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

reality

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Anonymous

restrain

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

William Blake

stop

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Marian Anderson

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