Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love.
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...
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal. To be of choice is to enter the world: the dream world, the divided world, the false, the pseudo, the illusory world.
You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going to be bad.
through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth
The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size.
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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