I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
-Thomas Jefferson
Quotations
Dream
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"
Judge your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees dawn before the rest of the world.
-Oscar Wilde
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"
Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more intelligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.
-Erich Fromm
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
-Ashleigh Brilliant
