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
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
-William Faulkner
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain
Talk about a dream, try to make it real
-Bruce Springsteen
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
Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle …a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining to unfurl. And the anticipation nurtures our dream.
-Barbara Winkler "Barbara Winkler"
Lost dreams may help you find new dreams.
-John Charles White
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
-Anaïs Nin
Dreams won't always take you on a straight path to destiny, but they're usually related to what your soul wants for you.
-Kelly Cutrone
"If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You"
If you can dream it, you can do it.
-Walt Disney
