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

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