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Quotes About Dreams

Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.
~ Paulo Coelho
It's [your Personal Legend] what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their Personal Legend.
~ Paulo Coelho
Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams.
~ Paulo Coelho
I have a gift for inventing fantasies with extraordinary speed.
~ Paulo Coelho
Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.
~ Paulo Coelho
What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up.
~ Paulo Coelho
Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.
~ Paulo Coelho
Follow your dreams and take your risks.
~ Paulo Coelho
There are four obstacles. First: we are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. The second obstacle: love. We know what we want to do, but are afraid of hurting those around us by abandoning everything in order to pursue our dream. The third obstacle: fear of the defeats we will meet on the path. The fourth obstacle: the fear of realizing the dream for which we fought all our lives.
~ Paulo Coelho
He never realized that people are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dreamed of.
~ Paulo Coelho
Don't place your dreams in the hands of those whom can destroy them.
~ Paulo Coelho
Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.
~ Paulo Coelho
Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon: you will be surprised how often you get it
~ Paulo Coelho
The universe always helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be.
~ Paulo Coelho
When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.
~ Paulo Coelho
Even though I complain sometimes, it said, it's because I'm the heart of a person, and people's hearts are that way. People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.
~ Paulo Coelho
It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing.
~ Paulo Coelho
when fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble.
~ Paulo Coelho
You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.
~ Paulo Coelho
There were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. [...] People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same
~ Paulo Coelho
The reason why people fail to achieve their dreams is because they stop pursuing them.
~ Paulo Coelho
It's the thought of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. All things happen for a reason.
~ Paulo Coelho
Item one: the law of the will. We just talked about this: one should only do that which truly fills our hearts with enthusiasm. If we brush this aside, if we put off the moment to live that which we dream of, we lose the energy necessary for any important transformation in our lives. Someone once put this most succinctly: "I don't know the secret of success - but the secret of failure is to always try to follow the will of others.
~ Paulo Coelho
You don't have to explain your dreams, they belong to you.
~ Paulo Coelho