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1. "We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have."

Publilius Syrus

2. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

Clarence Irving Lewis

Quotations about: Youth and Age

3. "Common sense is unhealthy for dreams."

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

4. "Obstacles are what a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."

Henry Ford

Quotations about: Question and Problem

5. "A goal is a dream taken seriously."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Success and Fame

6. "Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

Timothy Leary

Quotations about: Woman and Man

7. "Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it."

Anon.

Quotations about: Success and Fame

8. "Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience -:- Various

9. "Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier."

Anon.

Quotations about: Youth and Age

10. "Miracles are like jokes. They relieve our tension suddenly by setting us free from the chain of cause and effect."

Gerald Branan, "Thoughts in a Dry Season: A Miscellany"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination -:- Wit and Humor

11. "Love is the crocodile on the river of desire."

Bhartihari

Quotations about: Love

12. "The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

13. "If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire."

Gertrude Stein

14. "Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."

Anon.

15. "You get old only when you start having more memories than dreams."

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Memory -:- Youth and Age

16. "Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean."

Dag Hammarskjöld

Quotations about: Forgiveness

17. "And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death."

J.R.R. Tolkien

Quotations about: Life and Death

18. "What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore."

Edward Dahlberg, "Reasons of the Heart"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics -:- Woman and Man

19. "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

20. "Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable."

Leo Rosten

Quotations about: Happiness

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21. "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Pain and Tears

22. "When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in."

Aeschylus

Quotations about: Success and Fame

23. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

Eleanor Roosevelt

24. "Follow the fellow who follows a dream."

E.Y. Harburg, "Finian's Rainbow"

25. "If you don't have a dream how you gonna have a dream come true?"

Oscar Hammerstein, from song "Happy Talk"

26. "Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."

Salman Rushdie, "Midnight's Children"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

27. "There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Conduct of Life"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

28. "Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real."

George Bernard Shaw, "John Bull's Other Island"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

29. "There is only one passion, the passion for happiness."

Denis Diderot

Quotations about: Happiness

30. "Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise."

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, "Venus in Furs"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

31. "Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

John Updike, "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs"

32. "Death is the most blessed dream."

Georg Büchner, "Leonce and Lena"

Quotations about: Life and Death

33. "To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep."

Joan Klempner

34. "Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded."

Denis Diderot, "Philosophical Thoughts"

35. "The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him."

Jan Patocka

Quotations about: Human

36. "Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirious of living more do we really live."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "The Dehumanization of Art"

Quotations about: Life and Death

37. "Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need."

Gaston Bachelard

Quotations about: Human

38. "God, that checkroom of our dreams."

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

Quotations about: God and Religion

39. "A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream."

Gaston Bachelard

Quotations about: Art and Culture

40. "A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

John Barrymore

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia -:- Youth and Age

41. "Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are foosteps on the moon."

Anon.

42. "Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment."

Jean Baudrillard, "Cool Memories"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

43. "Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go."

Louise Driscoll

44. "If you pay attention to your dreams, they will begin to speak to you."

Natalie Goldberg

45. "Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled."

George Santayana

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

46. "Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you."

Marsha Norman

47. "Finding your passion is about connecting the dots between your head and your heart."

Maria Marsala

Quotations about: Various

48. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

49. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

50. "Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."

Napoleon Hill

Quotations about: Success and Fame

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