That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French Poet, Playwright, Film Director
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
—Robert H. Schuller (1926–2015) American Christian Televangelist, Author
The moment of enlightenment is when a person’s dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.
—Vic Braden (b.1929) American Sportsperson, Author
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
—John Lennon (1940–80) British Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Activist
Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream,
Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
Use what you have to run toward your best—that’s how I now live my life.
—Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality
I don’t use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.
—M. C. Escher (1898–1972) Dutch Graphic Artist
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
—Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American Singer-Songwriter
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fall immediately, they had better aim at something high.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
—Madonna (b.1958) American Pop Singer, Actress
If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.
—Vincent van Gogh (1853–90) Dutch Painter
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
—Brian Tracy (b.1944) American Author, Motivational Speaker
It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are—not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within—that you can begin to take control.
—Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality
What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream? Or what’s worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
—Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director
If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!
—Shel Silverstein (1932–99) American Cartoonist, Author
Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.
—Gail Godwin (b.1937) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
Dreams are the seed of creative reality
—Indian Proverb
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
—Buddhist Teaching
You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
—Donald Trump (b.1946) American Businessperson, Head of State
Dreams full oft are found of real events the forms and shadows.
—Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) Scottish Playwright, Poet
Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.
—Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879–1964) American-born British Politician
Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Poet
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State
We could say that meditation doesn’t have a reason or doesn’t have a purpose. In this respect it’s unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don’t do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we lay music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
—Alan Watts (1915–73) British-American Philosopher, Author
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.
—Walt Disney (1901–66) American Entrepreneur
There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
—William S. Burroughs (1914–97) American Novelist, Poet, Short Story Writer, Painter
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
—J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) Scottish Novelist, Dramatist
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
—Barbara Sher (1935–2020) American Career Coach
Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum.
—Unknown
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