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Category: Dreams and Desires

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

Henry David Thoreau

Other categories: Success and Fame

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

Timothy Leary

Other categories: Woman and Man

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

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Other categories: Success and Fame

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

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Other categories: Sin and Conscience -:- Various

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

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Other categories: Youth and Age

6. "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"

Other categories: Reality and Imagination -:- Wit and Humor

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

Bhartihari

Other categories: Love

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

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

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

Gertrude Stein

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

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

Agnieszka Lisak

Other categories: Memory -:- Youth and Age

12. "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

Other categories: Forgiveness

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

J.R.R. Tolkien

Other categories: Life and Death

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

Edward Dahlberg, "Reasons of the Heart"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Woman and Man

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

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

Leo Rosten

Other categories: Happiness

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

Henry David Thoreau

Other categories: Life and Death -:- Pain and Tears

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

Aeschylus

Other categories: Success and Fame

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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

Oscar Hammerstein, from song "Happy Talk"

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

Salman Rushdie, "Midnight’s Children"

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

23. "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"

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

24. "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"

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

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

Denis Diderot

Other categories: Happiness

26. "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"

Other categories: Woman and Man

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

John Updike, "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs"

28. "Death is the most blessed dream."

Georg Büchner, "Leonce and Lena"

Other categories: Life and Death

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

Joan Klempner

30. "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"

31. "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

Other categories: Human

32. "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"

Other categories: Life and Death

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

Gaston Bachelard

Other categories: Human

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

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

Other categories: God and Religion

35. "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

Other categories: Art and Culture

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

John Barrymore

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia -:- Youth and Age

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

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

Jean Baudrillard, "Cool Memories"

Other categories: Science and Technology

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

Louise Driscoll

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

Natalie Goldberg

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

George Santayana

Other categories: Normality and Madness

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

Marsha Norman

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

Maria Marsala

Other categories: Various

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

45. "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

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

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

Napoleon Hill

Other categories: Success and Fame

47. "Become the change you want to see."

Oprah Winfrey

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

48. "If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep."

Jewish proverb

Other categories: Work and Laziness

49. "Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds."

Saint Teresa of Avila (Teresa de Jesús)

Other categories: Human

50. "You can live in your dreams, but only if you are worthy of them."

Harlan Ellison

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