Quotes About Visions

In dreams begin responsibilities

Always keep dreaming. Follow those visions, listen to those whispers and pursue those dreams that keep trying to nudge you in the right direction. It is not impossible to achieve them.

I do not dream, I simply maintain an ever growing list of things I will do and things that I won't.

taken aback by the bookshops in all the cathedrals; visions of Jesus chasing the money changers out of the temple sprang to mind.

We need to see how dance, music, theater, art, poetry, are major arenas for alliance-building, especially among youth. Culture can usher in new visions

Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

Advocating sexual repression as a solution to violence against women ends up mobilizing women around their fears rather than their visions.

Prejudices, strong prejudices, are visions about the way things are. They are divinations of the order of the whole of things, and hence the road to a knowledge of that whole is by way of erroneous opinions about it. Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

I]f we take the whole history of philosophy, the systems reduce themselves to a few main types which, under all the technical verbiage in which the ingenious intellect of man envelops them, are just so many visions, modes of feeling the whole push, and seeing the whole drift of life, forced on one by one's total character and experience, and on the whole preferred – there is no other truthful word – as one's best working attitude. (James 1977, pp. 14–15)

Do we have dreams, or do dreams have us?

These are the dreams we should be having.

Sometimes in dreams there are visions of the past. For that reason Alice Prentice had always welcomed sleep, but she suffered an insomniac's dread of the time just before sleeping, the act of falling asleep itself, the perilous twilight of semi-awareness when the mind must struggle for coherence, when a siren or a cry in the street is the very sound of terror and the ticking of the clock is a steady reminder of death.

There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

How long have you had visions?" His matter-of-fact question flustered me. "I don't . . . I'm not . . . how can you talk about this so—so calmly?" "I had a cousin who could read the future in coffee grinds. My grandmother could predict hurricanes a month in advance.

To be able to see into a friends' dream is a dream in itself. -Doctor K?saku Tokita (Paprika)

I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.

I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.

Everything is only a dream.

I had lost my connection with the universal energy and gained in its place precognition, visions, and a healing gift I could not control.

knowledge would not necessarily serve them, nor would it make them happy. There was a chance it would instead throw light on visions they did not want to see.

Being able to understand it was of no great importance. We see no visions because we live in an age in which they are not permitted; but if we accepted the idea of them, who's to say what we wouldn't see? Marriage is no longer a mystical union but a social contract.

John's call now leads directly into the heart of the drama revealed in the visions on I'attnos (12-22): the cosmic conflict between God, the heavenly woman, and her son/groom and the dragon, the beasts, and the harlot. Everything that precedes Revelation 12 is preliminary to this central drama, preparing us to see our daily struggles as part of the great conflict of the ages.

A Dreamer is often the Visionary who can see the beauty of Dawn in the midst of darkness of the night, while the rest of the world is deep asleep. Be a Dreamer, and never lose your Dreams and Visions; because those are your Segways to Success.