opportunity

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

sunrise

He who binds to himself a joy. Does the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity's sunrise.

William Blake

optimism

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Voltaire

generosity

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Albert Camus

notion

Like alice in wonderland/ The dream takes you by the hand/ Inside emotions that you might not feel/ If by some notion the dream was not real.

Culture Club

fence

Silence is a fence around wisdom.

German Proverb

reality

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Charles Baudelaire

reason

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reason is necessary.

Ashleigh Brilliant

chains

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

charity

More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-- our very civilization -- is like the axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

safest

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Voltaire

artists

Civilization is as great as its dreams and its dreams are dreamt by artists.

Anonymous

don't spoil

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the thing you only hoped for.

Epicurus

happiness

Dreaming is happiness; waiting is life.

Victor Hugo

infinite

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and i'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

devour

Let the dream devour your life so that the life does not devour your dreams.

Saint-Exupéry

power

I believe everything we dream can come to pass through our union/ we can turn the world around/ we can turn the earth's revolution/ we have the power/ People have the power...

Patti Smith, People Have the Power

lose

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

William Faulkner

ourselves

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Lord Buddha

exceed

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp. Or what’s a heaven for?

Robert Browning