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
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
-Thomas Jefferson
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"
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
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
-Henry David Thoreau
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
-Ashleigh Brilliant
Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of what-if.
-Dodinsky
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
-Walt Disney
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
-Sigmund Freud
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
-Gail Godwin
