Quotes About Dreams

Instead of forgetting your dreams and living within your means, try pursuing the means to live your dreams.

Pursue a big life and you're pursuing the greatest life you can possibly live. To live great, you have to think big.

Half-filled dreams and unfulfilled hopes: this was the number-one regret expressed by the dying.

Highly successful people choose to live at the outer limits of achievement. They not only dream of but deeply crave what is beyond their natural grasp.

God has much to say to us, but we are often too busy to listen. Our minds have a tendency to get too occupied during the day, or sometimes we are too busy praying to God with our own agendas and have lost our listening ears. Dreams are one way God can "break in" and get something across to us that we might not be open to hearing during the day.

Goals are dreams with time lines. Turn your vision into action with goal setting. Seek progress rather than perfection.

If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

Relating to you in your nocturnal dreams is one of the Holy Spirit's favorite ways of working with people. But sometimes His Voice may simply come to you in the form of an idea from another person that rings true for you.

I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.

Our dreams are meant to come true, you know. What would be the purpose of dreaming if we could not fulfill our dreams?

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.

Such Small Things: For a long time there were only your footprints & laughter in our dreams & even from such small things, we knew we could not wait to love you forever.

I used to wait for a sign, she said, before I did anything. Then one night I had a dream & an angel in black tights came to me & said, you can start any time now, & then I asked is this a sign? & the angel started laughing & I woke up. Now, I think the whole world is filled with signs, but if there's no laughter, I know they're not for me.

I still fly a lot in my dreams, she told us, but I try to stay close to the ground. At my age, a fall can be pretty serious.

I should probably give up pretending I'm going to be somebody someday, he said, but a rich fantasy life is one of my best qualities. —Fantasy Life

He has a hole where his heart used to be because it fell out when he was running from scary things one night in a dream & it hurts all the time now & he doesn't know how to fix it & sometimes I think he doesn't even remember that it's gone.