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DREAMS

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whather they were enjoying it.
"HHGTTG" -Douglas Adams

Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be. The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird in the egg and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are seedlings of realities.
James Allen

I see you in my dreams. Fair boy, your eyes haunt me. . .
Tori Amos

To acomplish great things, we must not only act, but dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole

If one is lucky, a single solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Maya Angelou

In dreams and love there are no impossiblities.
Janos Arany

Dreams and visions are infused into men for their advantage and instruction. . .
Artemideres

Haven't you ever lived in a fairy tale before?
Peter S. Beagle

Listen to the color of your dreams.
The Beatles

Spectial in heaven as climbs the frail veiled moon, So climbs my dream.
William Jose Benet

We have these two ideas: the belief that dreams are part of waking, and the other, the splendid one, the belief of poets: that all of waking is a dream. There is no difference between the two.
Jorge Lius Borges

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realize themselves it is in the waking world; the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.
Elizabeth Bowen "The Death of the Heart"

I've dreamt my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
Emily Bronte

There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream.
Pearl Buck

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.
Brett Butler

When we dream alone it remains only a dream. When we dream together, it is not just a dream, it is the beginning of reality.
Dan Helder Camara

The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of society, you are in accord with your group. If it isn't, you've got a long adventure in the dark forrest ahead of you.
Joseph Campbell

How much better to live our dreams than to live our lives in a lethargy of regret.
Gilbert Caplin

I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls,
and each damp thing that creeps and crawls
Went wobble-wobble on the walls.
Lewis Carroll "The Place of Humbug"

The day we lose our need for dreams is the day the human race forfeits its soul.
John Chaim

My dear Mender! Surely you, most of all, know that dreams possess a reality all their own! In many cases, they are far more substantial than the dreamers themselves!
Morpheus "The Mender of Broken Dreams" Nancy A. Collins

Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Your words are the greatest poewer you have. The words you choose and the use establish the life you experience.
Sonia Coquette

When dreaming, I'm guided through another world, time and time again. At sunrise I fight to stay asleep, 'cause I don't want to leave the comfort of this place, 'cause there's a hunger, a longing to escape, from the life I live when I'm awake.
Creed

For better or for worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and the struggle to make them real.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Dreaming permits us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
W. Doment

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Einstein

I know of a dream I should be holding.
Enya

All men and women are born, live, suffer, and die; What distinguishes us from one another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about. . .
Joseph Epstein

Frightened by a dream? You're not the only one. Running like the wind thoughts can come undone. Dancing behind masks, just subtle pantomine. But images reveal whatever lonely hearts can't hide.
Joe Esposito

Dreams of what we've loved and lost, dreams that are more vivid than our lives, dreams that tell you they aren't dreams, from which come the questions that trouble and entrall and finally free our spirits, if we're brave enough for the answers.
Intro to Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman: Dream Country" - Steve Erickson

Dreaming . . . I was dreaming . . . or perhaps it may have been a long forgotten memory . . . a dream . . . a memory . . . Things remembered when one is asleep . . . Things forgotten when one is awake . . . where the deepest layers of memories becomes the outmost layers of one's dreams . . . Which are reality? Which are illusions? One cannot tell until one awakes . . . Or, perhaps they are, at the same time, both truth and fiction.
Fei "XenoGears"

Cut not the wings of your dreams
For they
Are the heartbeat
And the
Freedom of your soul.
Flavia

It is never easy to keep reaching for dreams. . . strength and courage can sometimes be lonely friends. But those who reach, walk in stardust.
Flavia

both dreams and myths are important communications. . . If we do not understnand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
Erich Fromm

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.
Robert Fulghum

Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined?
"The Sandman: World's End" Neil Gaiman

There are only 2 worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this one worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. These worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide a refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters. Do you understand?
Neil Gaiman

A dream grants what one covets when awake.
German Proverb

When we can't dream, we die.
Emma Goldman

She. . . marvelled at the strangeness and mystery of dreams, in which the dreamer is at the same time inventor and surprised spectator.
Susan Ertz

We are all wanderers on this earth. Our hearts are full of wonder, and our souls are deep with dreams.
Gypsy Proverb

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

Fantasies are more than substitutes for complacent reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

All dreams spin out from the same web.
Hopi Proverb

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams or desires.
Kahlil Gibran

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of tomorrow.
Robert H. Goddard

We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams, even if it takes a lifetime.
V. Hamiliton

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of you soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napolean Hill

Hold fast to dreams,
for if dreams die,
life is a broken bird
that cannot fly.
Lanston Hughes

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Eugene Ionesco

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanction of the soul.
C. G. Jung

The poor man is not he without a cent, but he who is without a dream.
Harry Kemp

Some people follow their dreams , others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.
Neil Kendall

Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers, and me.
Kermit the Frog

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac

A dream is woven from thin air and nothing,
Embroidered with wishes and everything,
Then filled with the padding of hope and delight.
James W. King

Even if your fantasy comes true, that doesn't mean you should stop dreaming.
Jonathan Knight

Dare to dream. . . something will always come of it.
Janusz Korczak

Without darkness there are no dreams.
Karla Kuban

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the ones with all the facts.
Life's Little Instruction Book

Our visions begin with our dreams.
Audre Lorde

It's lovely to know the world can't interfere with the inside of your head.
Frank McCourt

Practical people would be a little more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.
J. P. McEvoy

Your real duty is to your dreams.
Mogdiliani

Reality can destroy the dream, why can't the dream destroy reality?
Thomas Moore

You say that I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly. . . But you say that dreams have no power here? Tell me. . . what power would hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of heaven?
Morpheus in Sandman

You block your dream when you allow your fear to become bigger than your faith.
Mary Mannin Morrisey

Dreams are the answers to questions not yet asked.
Mulder -"X-Files"

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Anias Nin

Dreams are neccessary to life.
Anias Nin

Our life is compsed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they mus tbe brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Anias Nin

Hopes are what your waking mind can imagine. Like prayers. Like bridges you can cross to another place. And however wild these hopes may be, they are still basically thinkable things. But dreams are the unthinkable, the unsayable.
Marsha Norton

You cannot harm me,
you cannot harm
one who has dreamed a
dream like mine. . .
Ojibwe poem fragment

Our dreams are as real, while they last, as the occurrences of the daytime. We see, hear, feel, act, experience pleasure and suffer pain, as vividly as actually in a dream as when awake. The occurences and transactions of a year are crowded into the limits of a second; and the dream remembered is as real as the past experiences of life.
Albert Pike

Deep into the darkness peering,
long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
doubting, dreaming,
dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allen Poe

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Zodoc Rabinowitz

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 I can be.
Karen Ravn

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
"Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone" -J. K. Rowling

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this motion: the potential for greatness lives within each of us.
Wilma Rudolph

Dream lofty dreams - and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.
John Ruskin

Dreaming is not safe for our illusion of control and it is "infinitely" safe for our soul.
Anne Wilson Schaef

Yes you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.
H. Robert Schuller

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed -- my dearest pleasure when free.
Mary Shelly

Dreamers are those who have achieved in love and life, because it is a dream that got them theirs.
Cindy Sherman

People live for their dreams, not for the oppressiveness of truths.
Michael Shurtleff

Dreams defy symbolic systems. They do, however, love to dance.
Mary Sojourner "Dreamweaving"

Imagine this, my kin, that dreams are only pathways through time and trails through possibility.
Mary Sojourner "Dreamweaving"

I dream for a living.
Steven Spielberg

Between our dreams and our actions, there's this world.
Bruce Springsteen

Be a full-time dreamer.
David St. Hubbins

To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality.
Starhawk

Magic has often been thought of as the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.
Starhawk

Puttering is really a time to be alone, to dream and to get in touch with yourself. . .To putter is to discover.
Alexandria Stoddard

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar grounds.
Paula T.

Constantly consider your dreams, but live life as you imagine it to be.
Thoreau

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
Thoreau

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

Explore. Discover. Dream.
Mark Twain

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.
Anna M. Urlich

Dreams are the soul's pantry. Keep it well stocked and your soul will never hunger.
Andy Williams

I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W. B. Yeats

You must dare to dream, but there is no substitute for hard work. . . becasue no one gets there alone.
"X-files"

My prayer for you is a dream
big enough to capture your heart,
bright enough to illuminate your mind
and deep enough to satisfy your spirit.
May you find the strength to persue it
and be enriched by it across the future.

One of the most adventurous things left is to go to bed. No one can lay a hand on our dreams.

There are dreams that come from sorrow
dreams that come from pride.
There are dreams we'll dream tomorrow
to forget or put aside.
But don't be afraid of dreaming
or believing what you see,
for when life bears down upon you,
it's a dream that sets you free.

This darkness. What is it but a theatre in which we work our magic; where we can express our desires and our fears, our dreams and our pain. In this dimly lit place, we seek the visions that both inspire and horrify us.

In the dark of the moon, we have dreams to light the path.

Hope for tomorrow thrives in our dreams.

Dreams color your soul with rainbows of hope.

All dreams reflect inborn creatively and ability to face and solve life's problems.

Take your time, think a lot, think of everything you've got. For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.

The key to happiness is having dreams. . . the key to success is making dreams come true.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprint of your ultimate achievements.

Fantasy, abandonned by reason, produces impossible monsters; United with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

Dance to the music of your dreams, the steps will bring you joy.

Believe in your dreams, for they are the movers of mountains.

You should never tell a child their dreams are unlikely or outlandish. Few things are more humiliating and what a tradgedy it would be if they believed it.

May your dreams extend past the heavens and into the stars.

It we let the dream die, what was the point of waking up?

When you cease to dream, you cease to live.

Dreams are the highway of the soul, on which only our innermost being, whispering a voice so subtle, can travel undisturbed. Lose them not, for to lose them is to relinquish the ability to return to our innermost being.

The world is so hard on the honorable, the dreamers, and the seekers of truth.

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