Quotes About Dreams

Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives.

Dreams are private, she said. And she is right. A dream is a story that no one else will get to hear or read.

Thanks to dreams, in the history of the galaxy the world has been reinvented more often than there are stars.

Power to do good is the true and lawful act of aspiring; for good thoughts (though God accept them), yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.

When you see a guy reach for stars in the sky You can bet that he's doing it for some doll.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn't become a bird overnight.

Analyzing dreams is much like walking on water. There are a limited number of people who do it well.

I've always believed that what you give in life is exactly what you get back," Mom said. "You have given a lot to others, and one of these days you will get back the things you dream of!

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....

I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better. I definitely feel like I've grown up. So, I guess in a way parts of me are going to be different, but in general I'm still the same girl from the Bronx who had big dreams.

I always knew I wanted to be a performer, and my mother started taking me to dance classes when I was five. My mother is a teacher, my father works at an insurance company. When I said I wanted to be a performer, people went, "Yeah, right." You don't do that where I come from.

And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality, And dreams in their development have breath, And tears and tortures, and the touch of joy.

Not in those climes where I have late been straying, Though Beauty long hath there been matchless deemed, Not in those visions to the heart displaying Forms which it sighs but to have only dreamed, Hath aught like thee in truth or fancy seemed: Nor, having seen thee, shall I vainly seek To paint those charms which varied as they beamed— To such as see thee not my words were weak; To those who gaze on thee, what language could they speak?

Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.

Now it is thus with time in Elfland: in the eternal beauty that dreams in that honied air nothing stirs or fades or dies, nothing seeks its happiness in movement or change or a new thing, but has its ecstasy in the perpetual contemplation of all the beauty that has ever been, and which always glows over those enchanted lawns as intense as when first created by incantation or song.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

I think sleep is unrated.