Dreams and Desires

"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"

Dreams and Desires

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Dreams and Desires

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Denis Diderot

Dreams and Desires

Happiness

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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."

Sacher-Masoch-Leopold-Von "Venus in Furs"

Dreams and Desires

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

John Updike "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs"

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Death is the most blessed dream."

Georg Büchner "Leonce and Lena"

Dreams and Desires

Life and Death

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Joan Klempner

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Dreams and Desires

Human

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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"

Dreams and Desires

Life and Death

Rating: 7.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Gaston Bachelard

Dreams and Desires

Human

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"God, that checkroom of our dreams."

Jean Rostand "The Substance of Man"

Dreams and Desires

God and Religion

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Art and Culture

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

John Barrymore

Dreams and Desires

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

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Dreams and Desires

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Jean Baudrillard "Cool Memories"

Dreams and Desires

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Louise Driscoll

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Natalie Goldberg

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

George Santayana

Dreams and Desires

Normality and Madness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Marsha Norman

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Maria Marsala

Dreams and Desires

Various

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Dreams and Desires

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Napoleon Hill

Dreams and Desires

Success and Fame

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Become the change you want to see."

Oprah Winfrey

Dreams and Desires

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 2.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Jewish Proverbs

Dreams and Desires

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 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)

Dreams and Desires

Human

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Harlan Ellison

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Sathya Sai Baba

Dreams and Desires

God and Religion

Human

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Joyce Brothers

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Arthur Koestler

Dreams and Desires

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Alexander Graham Bell

Dreams and Desires

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Carol Burnett

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Tecumseh

Dreams and Desires

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Dreams and Desires

Various

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Dreams and Desires

Life and Death

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."

Jorge Luis Borges

Art and Culture

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Tommy Lasorda

Dreams and Desires

Optimism and Hope

Success and Fame

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Ashleigh Brilliant

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Friedrich von Schiller

Defeates and Mistakes

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

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Dreams and Desires

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Stael-Holstein-Anne-Louise-Germaine-de

Dreams and Desires

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

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Dreams and Desires

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Dreams and Desires

Talent and Genius

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Emma Goldman

Dreams and Desires

Life and Death

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

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Dreams and Desires

Various

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 12)

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Dreams and Desires

Time and Passing

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Francis Herbert Bradley "Aphorisms"

Dreams and Desires

Happiness

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 2)