living

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

odd

"Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try."

Ethan Hawke, The Hottest State

pathetic

The most pathetic person in the world is some one with sight but no vision.

Helen Keller

we

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare, The Tempest

answer

The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.

Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

truest

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau

true

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

led

Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

Roy T. Bennett

dream

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

one

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

dreamer

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us.
And the world will live as one.

John Lennon

solved

Every challenge we face can be solved by a dream.

David Schwartz

greatness

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Alfred Victor Vigny

hope

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Diogenes

deferred

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

Langston Hughes

when

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

Anonymous

real

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

Havelock Ellis

illusion

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Voltaire

ridicule

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Oscar Wilde

life

If your life was complete, you'd be dead.

Joshua Wisenbaker

gentle

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

shape

Memories establish the past;
Senses perceive the present;
Imaginations shape the future.

Toba Beta

reality

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

ignorance

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

Plato

the end

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of thing not meant for you.

Lord Buddha

you

And now that you don't have to be perfect,
you can be good.

John Steinbeck

succeed

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas Edison

careful

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Malcolm X

moment

Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.

Omar Khayyam

loss

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Norman Cousins

life

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Charles R. Swindoll

right

We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.

Winston S. Churchill

counts

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Albert Einstein

elect

A people that elect corrupt politicians, impostors, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices.

George Orwell

sadness

Sadness is a wall between two gardens.

Khalil Gibran

surprising

Surprising yourself is what makes life worth living.

Oscar Wilde

change

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

not careful

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Malcolm X

dream

My dream is of a place and time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

possible

Trust the wait.
Embrace the uncertainty.
Enjoy the beauty of becoming.
When nothing is certain, anything is possible.

Mandy Hale

give

Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your hear it will be returned.

Steve Maraboli

he

He who does not oppose evil, commands it to be done.

Leonardo Da Vinci

aim

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thought and everything will be well.

Mahatma Gandhi

inventors

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

touch

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

Frederick Buechner

day

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the word for his coming.

Augustus Hare

tyranny

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Charles de Montesquieu

begins

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars and to change the world.

Harriet Tubman

compassion

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar... it understands that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

somebody

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was the somebody.

Lily Tomlin