Lost Dreams Quotes

• Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Why the Internet Is Full of Feminist Quotes Falsely Attributed to Gloria Steinem" by Ruth Graham, www.slate.com. October 05, 2017.

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• People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspiring, Dream, Memories

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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspiring, Dream, Lost

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• A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Dream, Expectations, Desire

  "Big Dreams". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Dream, Regret, Mourning

  Barbara De Angelis (2007). “How Did I Get Here?: Finding Your Way to Renewed Hope and Happiness When Life and Love Take Unexpected Turns”, p.215, Macmillan

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• Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?

  Steve Buscemi

  Thinking, Heaven, Earth

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• We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's work to be done. To be efficient, one cannot be hungry and dreamy but must eat steak and keep moving.

  Robert Musil

  Dream, Moving, Reality

  Robert Musil, Sophie Wilkins (1996). “The Man Without Qualities”, Vintage

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• The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.

  Robert E. Howard

  Dream, Men, Clouds

  "The Road of Azrael". Book by Robert E. Howard, 1976.

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• The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.

  Richard J. Foster

  Dream, Spiritual, Discipline

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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