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It's not enough to have a dream, Unless you're willing to pursue it. 
It's not enough to know what's right, 
Unless you're strong enough to do it. It's not enough to learn the truth, 
Unless you also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love, 
Unless you care enough to give it Men who are resolved to find a way 
for themselves will always find opportunities enough; 
and if they do not find them, they will make them. 
--Samuel Smiles 

In dreams begins responsibility. 
--William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish Nobel Prize-winning poet 

I don't know whether the world is full of smart men bluffing 
or imbeciles who mean it. 
--Morrie Brickman 

All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in 
the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find 
that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, 
for they dream their dreams with open eyes, and make them come true. 
--T.E. Lawrence (AKA Lawrence of Arabia) 

"I had a dream, and it landed right here in my hand" 
--Robert R. Toth, Artist, The Realm of Art Gallery. 

Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them. 
--Phantom F. Harlock 

Sometimes dreams alter the course of an entire life. 
--Judith Duerk 

Think impossible and dreams get discarded, projects get abandoned, 
and hope for wellness is torpedoed. But let someone yell the words 
It's possible, and resources we hadn't been aware of come rushing 
in to assist us in our quest. 
--Greg Anderson 

Nonviolence is about speaking the whole complicated truth, 
the truth of our rage, the truth of our longing, the truth of our tears 
and our laughter, the truth of our smallest fears and our grandest dreams 
--Pam McAllister 

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. 
They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, 
hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. 
The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within. 
--Ramona L. Anderson 

When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old. 
--William J. Clinton - Bill Clinton 

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, 
to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. 
The money is the gravy 
--Bette Davis 

Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. 
We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, 
especially on the path we've chosen. But while we wait, 
we need to prepare symbolically a place for our hopes and dreams. 
--Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance: 
A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach 

Never laugh at anyone's dreams. 
People who don't have dreams don't have much. 
--Unknown 

If your dreams turn to dust....vacuum. 
--Unknown 

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. 
Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy 
in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start 
to pursue other ways to get it. 
--Greg Anderson US basketball player 

We grow great by dreams ... Some of us let these great dreams die, 
but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days 
till they [flourish]; bring them to the sunshine and light, 
which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their 
dreams will come true. 
--Woodrow Wilson 

Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be here, 
but you will have ceased to live. 
--Lady Nancy Astor 

If you talk to your children, you can help them to keep 
their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, 
you can help them to build future dreams. 
--Jim Rohn 

Trust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity. 
--Kahill Gibran 

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. 
If you can dream it, you can make it so. 
--Belva Davis 

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. 
They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire 
of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, 
but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days 
till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always 
to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true." 
--Woodrow Wilson, 28th US President 

We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams... 
--Arthur O'Shaughnessy 

"There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, 
but there will never be a dream exactly like your own...
for you are unique and more wondrous than you know!" 
--Linda Staten 

"Dream as if you'll live forever... live as if you'll die today." 
--James Dean 

"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, 
there are still untapped possibilities within us and 
new beauty waiting to be born." 
--Dale E. Turner 

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark 
should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. 
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, 
than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, 
not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. 
I shall use my time." 
--Jack London, American Author 

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment 
a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral." 
--Antoine De Saint-Exupery, French Author, Aviator 

Only as high as I reach can I grow Only as far as I seek can I go, 
Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be. 
--Karen Ravn 

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. 
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. 
--Goethe, German Poet, Novelist 

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." 
--Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady 

Some men see things as they are and ask why. 
Others dream things that never were and ask why not. 
--George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright and Critic 

All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes 
us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about 
worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... 
We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. 
We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, 
or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. 
We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the 
time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of 
choicelessness, we do choose how we live. 
--Joseph Epstein 

If you can dream it, you can do it. 
--Walt Disney 

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. 
Go forward and make your dreams come true. 
--Ralph Waldo Emerson 

For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come 
--Hamlet 

Imagination is the outreaching of mind . . . . 
the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, 
impulses, images and every sort of psychic phenomena 
welling up from the preconscious. It is the capacity to 
'dream dreams and see visions . . . .'Rollo May (1909-1994) 
--US psychoanalyst 

It is amazing that our souls--our eternal essences, 
with all their hopes and dreams and visions of an 
eternal world--are contained within the temporal bodies. 
No wonder suffering is part of the human condition. 
--Marion Woodman from the essay Soul Moments, 
Handbook for the Soul edited by Benjamin Shield 

It is difficult to say what is impossible, 
for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today
 and the reality of tomorrow. 
--Robert H. Goddard Franklin Seasons Planner, September 2, 1993 

Let your dream devour your life not your life devour your dream. 
--Unknown 

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

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. 
Small people always do that, but the really great make you 
feel that you, too, can become great." 
--Mark Twain, American Author, Humorist 

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. 
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. 
--Pamela Vaull Starr 

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be 
quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. 
--William Dement 

Dreams are the touchstone of our character. 
--Henry David Thoreau 

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. 
--Paul Gauguin 

The dream follows the interpretation. 
--The Talmud 

A dream that is not interpreted is like a letter that has not been opened. 
--The Talmud 

Those who lose dreaming are lost. 
--Australian Aboriginal Proverb 

Dreams pass into the reality of action. 
From the action stems the dream again; 
and this inter-dependence produces the highest form of living. 
--Anias Nin (1903-1977) 

In your heart, keep one still secret spot where dreams may go a
nd be sheltered so they may thrive and grow. 
--Louise Driscoll 

Dreams die hard and you hold them in your hands long after they've turned to dust. 
--Dragonheart 

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 Life is a Dream 

Go Confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. 
--Henry David Thoreau 

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality. 
--Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) US writer 

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. 
--Orison Swett Marden 

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you 
ever prove it wasn't all a dream? 
--Ashleigh Brilliant 

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that 
normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover 
that you know a great deal more than you thought you did. 
--Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) US writer 

Dreams are wishes casted upon stars, so catch a shining one ~ 
take your friend's hand~ and hold on forever 
--Traci Brown 

Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up. 
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success the 
earliest spark in the dreaming youth -- is this: dream a great dream. 
--John A. Appleman 

A goal is a dream with a deadline. 
--Unknown 

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone 
has more control of us than we have over ourselves. 
--Peter McWilliams Author 

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, 
concentrate the mind on the present moment. 
--Buddha 

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. 
They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, 
above the storms, if you only let them. 
--William James 

If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, a
nd endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, 
they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. 
--Henry David Thoreau 

Yes, everybody's dying to be someone else, 
but I'll live my life if it kills me. 
--e.e. cummings 

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart
... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. 
--Carl Jung 

A dream is an answer to a question we haven't yet learned how to ask. 
--Fox Mulder 

People don't fall in love with what's right in front of them. 
People want the dream -- what they can't have. 
The more unattainable, the more attractive. 
--Xander 

Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to 
follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, 
self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely 
impress yourself. 
--Dr. Laura Schlessinger