illusion

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Voltaire

deferred

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes

vacuum

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

Anonymous

fellow-workers

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

Heraclitus

real

Dreams are real while they are happening. Can we say anything more about life?

Havelock Ellis

future

I like the dreams of the future better the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

hope

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Diogenes

impossibilities

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Jànos Arany

wisest

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Plato

future

The future always arrives too fast... and in the wrong order.

Alvin Toffler

everything

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

real

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him.

Bill Watterson

something

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. it matters that you don't just give up.

Stephen Hawking

stars

We are stars wrapped in skin, The light you are seeking has always been within.

Rumi

before

Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?

Sufi saying

suffering

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.

The Dalai Lama

enemy

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking.

attention

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simone Weil

judge

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Voltaire

good

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

terrified

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Georgia O'Keefe

beauty

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

Junichiro Tanizaki

flowers

In joy and sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

Kakuzo Kakura

art

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Bertolt Brecht.

peace

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.

the Dalai Lama

feel

Seeing is not enough, you have to feel what you photograph.

Andre Kertesz

truth

The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.

Gloria Steinem

fog

Fog is more dangerous than dark, as it gives the illusion of seeing.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

time

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Elie Wiesel

we

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Lord Buddah

cure

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Oscar Wilde

index

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.

Zadok Rabinwitz

asleep

It is a shame that when we have a good dream we are asleep at the time.

P. K. Shaw

overcame

I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

Jonas Salk

dream

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

interest

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

destiny

We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.

David Richo

good

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

change

To change the world takes time; to change yourself takes courage.

R.S. Lowel

present

The future torments us, the past holds us back, which is why the present we escape.

Gustave Flaubert

food

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Franz Kafka

dreamer

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

Cassandra Martin

fine line

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

B. Quilliam

wake

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.

J. M. Power

cognizant

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

Alexander Pope

real

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Luigi Pirandello

message

I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.

Frederick Salomon Peris

dreamers

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

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

waking

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

Novalis

illustrations

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

Marsha Norman