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Quotes About Dreams

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The day dawns smiling, rational and bright, We're tangled in a net of dreams at night. From green fields we come home contentedly, 11770 A bird croaks: meaning what?—catastrophe! Bedeviled by superstitions, we imagine The least thing is a sign, a portent, omen. And so we tremble, feeling lost, alone. The door creaks and we stiffen—there's no one.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
~ Douglas Coupland
You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.
~ Joan Lunden
...because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living.
~ Chris Colfer
Our goal should be that we're going to live life to the fullest, pursuing our passions and dreams, and when it comes our time to go, we will have used as much of our potential as possible.
~ Joel Osteen
Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.
~ Julie Anne Peters
The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild.
~ KT Tunstall
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.
~ Bert McCracken
Our dreams are a second life.
~ Gerard de Nerval
In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
We can all learn to live jubilantly. We can all learn to alter our attitudes so that we can better realize our dreams.
~ Joan Lunden
Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.
~ Stephanie Perkins
I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
Hang on to your dreams with everything you got. Because the best life is when your dreams come true. The second-best is when they don't but you never stop chasing them.
~ Tim Dorsey
Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.
~ Walt Disney
The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.
~ Michelangelo
Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.
~ Mignon McLaughlin