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
When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
-William Faulkner
Judge your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"
Lost dreams may help you find new dreams.
-John Charles White
If you take responsibility for yourself, you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
-Les Brown
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
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
-Marsha Norman
