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
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
-Mary Manin Morrissey
Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.
-Eileen Elias Freeman
"The Angels' Little Instruction Book"
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
The light of starry dreams can only be seen once we escape the blinding cities of disbelief.
-Shawn Purvis
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"
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
-Edgar Cayce
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
-Gail Godwin
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
-Henry David Thoreau
