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Category: Dreams and Desires

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1. "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

2. "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

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

Oprah Winfrey

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

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

Jewish proverb

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

5. "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)

Quotations about: Human

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

Harlan Ellison

7. "Life + Desire = Man; Life - Desire = God"

Sathya Sai Baba

Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Human

8. "Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams."

Joyce Brothers

9. "Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

Arthur Koestler

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

10. "Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires."

Alexander Graham Bell

Quotations about: Human -:- Nature and Animals

11. "When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."

Carol Burnett

12. "When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness."

Tecumseh

Quotations about: Various

13. "It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it."

Eugene V. Debs

Quotations about: Various

14. "The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."

James A. Michener

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Reality and Imagination

15. "Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."

Jorge Luis Borges

Quotations about: Art and Culture

16. "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

Tommy Lasorda

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope -:- Success and Fame

17. "The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary."

Ashleigh Brilliant

18. "Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays."

Friedrich von Schiller

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

19. "The greatest tragedy is when man gives up what he wants most for what he wants now!"

Anon.

20. "The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man."

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein

Quotations about: Woman and Man

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21. "A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live."

Anon.

22. "We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

Eric Hoffer

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

23. "When we can't dream any longer we die."

Emma Goldman

Quotations about: Life and Death

24. "A 'wish' changes nothing. A 'decision' changes everything!"

Anon.

Quotations about: Various

25. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Quotations about: Time and Passing

26. "The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness."

Francis Herbert Bradley, "Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Happiness

27. "A goal without a plan is just a wish."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

28. "A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline."

Harvey Mackay

Quotations about: Success and Fame

29. "Love is when you don't want to go to sleep because reality is better than a dream."

Anon.

Quotations about: Love -:- Reality and Imagination

30. "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."

James Dean

Quotations about: Life and Death

31. "How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!"

Logan Pearsall Smith, "Afterthoughts"

32. "Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."

Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Words"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

33. "The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach."

Carl Gustav Jung, "The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

34. "In the drowsy dark cave of the mind, dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan."

Rabindranath Tagore

35. "The center of every man's existence is a dream."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

36. "There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."

George Bernard Shaw

37. "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

Clive Staples Lewis, "Mere Christianity"

38. "If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."

Henry Miller

Quotations about: Human

39. "Reality is a poor substitute for my dreams."

Anon.

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

40. "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live."

Mark Twain, "Following the Equator"

41. "Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Art and Culture

42. "People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage others."

Anon.

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

43. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan"

44. "Find purpose, the means will follow."

Mahatma Gandhi

45. "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes."

Rabindranath Tagore

46. "A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream."

William Faulkner

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

47. "Satisfaction is the death of desire."

Anon.

48. "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

Thomas Jefferson

Quotations about: History and Nations

49. "The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Happiness

50. "As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."

George Bernard Shaw, "Overruled"

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