Quotes About Dreams

Hear in a realm of wordless dreams-- That inner life which knows and thinks; My thirsty spirit comes and drinks The petal dew of golden streams; Where death is less than what it seems, And life is subtler than the Sphinx.

They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

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.

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

The more a man dreams, the less he believes

The idea that my sucker is moving through thought itself, through emotion and reason, that memories, dreams and reflections should consist of jelly, is simply too strange to understand.

What we all hope in reaching for a book, is to meet a man of our own heart, to experience tragedies and delights which we ourselves lack the courage to invite, to dream dreams which will render life more hallucinating, perhaps also to discover a philosophy of life which will make us more adequate in meeting the trials and ordeals which beset us. To merely add to our store of knowledge or improve our culture, whatever that may mean, seems worthless to me.

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.