Quotes About Dreams

Due to their reluctance to tie themselves down at a young age, they have the capacity as well as the predisposition to be their own bosses and following their own dreams.

Thoughts, pictures of him would come to me just a second after waking, shocking me from the forgetfulness of sleep, striking blows that were almost physical. And even in sleep I was not completely free. So often sleep brought dreams of him.

I was grateful to have him to support and steer me, even though he wasn't particularly good-looking or with a dashing personality, both attributes I'd imagined for a husband before I was mature enough to accept that it was easier to dream than it was to make the dream come true

ever since, he's found the corporate lifestyle so stultifying and soul-destroying, he dreams of living in a wigwam in a field of growing his own food

Nenn es Hoffnung, nenn es Utopie oder nenn es paranoide Schizophrenie.

Gail Delaney's Living Your Dreams, Ann Faraday's The Dream Game, and Patricia Garfield's Creative Dreaming. Jung's

without a vision, people perish!

The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute of kings.

When I was a boy, that was all I wanted—to grow a pair of wings and get up into the sky. I had a basement full of failed wing projects. Boards and capes and motors, even a pile of found feathers I once tried to glue together with a bottle of Elmer's; you should have seen your grandmother's face. But I never got any higher than the backyard fence I'd launch from. I never got inside a cloud. Your raven did.

The self is woke and abnegating, line crossing and navigating, more-or-less list making, marked by the immediate and bent by the scene, the superimposition of other people's dreams, and I remembered the essence of a note I had written to a former student, now a man: But might your happiness be more than all the ways you work to make other people happy? Might you soon belong to you?

Use your imagination as an arrow hurtling back toward what might have been or will never be.

Everybody always wants to be a mermaid

We all want to feel like the most beautiful girl in the room, to be chosen and loved forever. The Cinderella story gives us hope of our impossible dreams becoming true.

and though her life had not been what her more youthful self would have dreamed, it had been unmistakably, irrevocably hers.

(D)reams are like that: they go in and out of memories and scenes, but they're never real. They're never real, and I hate them because they aren't.

Everything worth having can be carried in your heart.

Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars. - Now, Voyager

Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to a child. They deny the years when she can no longer look forward to giving birth, even if she repeats the act over and over again. In the feminine mystique, there is no other way for a woman to dream of creation or of the future. There is no other way she can even dream about herself, except as her children's mother, her husband's wife.

Betty G. Birney

Someday, Sarah, someone will come along and give you the moon, and the stars too.

Just because women whore doesn't mean they don't have hopes or dreams or desires of their own. There is little glamour in taking strange men into your bed.

Eddy dreamed of owning her own restaurant. It was a common belief that women like her, the descendant of slaves, had no right to dream.

She wanted to be valued and loved, two things sorely missing from her life, and she didn't think it ludicrous or wrong for a woman her age to have such dreams.

Best not to tiptoe around what you're yearning for, eyeing it, longing for it . . . or you'll miss your life ahead, it read.