What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.
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What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.
You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows...and has always known...that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.
If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
If people around you aren't going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they're dragging you down, get rid of them.
A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is What would love do now?
Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering.
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.
Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams
Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that God has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!
You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.
It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherence of our own nightly dreams.
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