action

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Anaïs Nin

second

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

Gérard de Nerval

accomplish

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan ... believe ... act!

Albert Montapert

compared

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

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

reality

Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.

Dean Marshall

adventurous

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

E.V. Lucas

war

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

Albert Camus

truth

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Hannah Arendt

succession

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

Swami Vivekanada

time

Take the time every day to sit still
And listen to things.

Lord Buddha

need

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Albert Camus

necessary

Dreams are necessary to life.

Anais Nin

practice

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The Dalai Lama

liberating

We have to talk about liberating minds, as well as liberating society.

Angela Davis

death

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Mark Twain

voice

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the word...would do this, it would change the earth.

William Faulkner

tomorrow

Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man.

Janis Joplin

apocalypse

There's no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.

Neil Gaiman, Signal to Noise

civilization

A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.

Anonymous

touchstones

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Henry David Thoreau

keep

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Louise Driscoll

true

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike

trust

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

Kahlil Gibran

dream

I am a dream of both beautiful and dark things. Like the moon, full of sun and beloved shadows.

Cassandra Martin

beginning

For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.

T.S. Eliot

lives

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King, Jr

information

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

Bruce Coville

distinguishing

I have grown or aged into difficulty, in distinguishing between Art & Life. The reason may be, that the difference is not alway as neat or as convincing that i use to think. When we make our art, we are also making our lives. As i am sure the reverse is equally true.

Wendell Berry

mystery

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

hold

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die
life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

failed

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkner

live

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

J.K. Rowling

unsettling

Dreams that come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.

Brett Butler

lie

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

beautiful

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

free

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to what he might choose.

Langston Hughes

truth

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

public

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

possibilitarian

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities... always see them... for they're always there.

Norman Vincent Peale

hope

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering "it will be happier"...

Alfred Tennysone

dwell

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Lord Buddha

windows

They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

Henry Bromel

center

The center of every man's existence is a dream.

G.K. Chesterton

responsibility

In dreams begin responsibilities.

William Butler Yeats

conscious

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

Swami Vivekanada

dreams

We are such stuff
As dreams are made on

William Shakespeare

greatest

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Lord Buddha

life

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Ursula K. Le Guin

journey

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Ursula K. Le Guin

art

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso