wisdom

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates

midway

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Plotinus

energy

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

if

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

African Proverb

faith

Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark.

Rabindranath Tagore

substance

The very substance of the ambitions is merely the shadow of a dream.

William Shakespeare

light

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Ursula K. Le Guin

looks

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

William Butler yeats

above all

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

life

What is life? a madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

present

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Frank Lloyd Wright

life

Life can only happen backwards but must be lived forward.

Søren Kierkegaard

parents

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

Spike Lee

pitiful

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Khalil Gibran

answers

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

Edgar Cayce

demagogue

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

H.L. Mencken

better

It is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left.

Jim Carrey

dwell

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

J. K. Rowling

no person

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Marian Wright Edelman

time machines

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

Jeremy Irons