Ester asked why people are sad.
“That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
Quotations
Dream
If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?
-Eddie Vedder
Sometimes we give up our dream to accept a larger role in someone else's dream.
-Robert Brault
Dream is not what you see in your sleep, it is the thing which does not let you sleep.
-A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
-Thomas Jefferson
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach
"Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy"
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
-Henry David Thoreau
Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of what-if.
-Dodinsky
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
Most people who fail in their dream, fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.
-Zig Ziglar
"See You at the Top"
