Our Dreams Quotes - Page 17

• She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Flying High, Radio

  Song: Sequel, Album: Sequel, 1981

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• We have to provide the roads on which our dreams are paved. And these roads can't have potholes, they can't break down in six months. They have to be big roads because they are going to carry strong people, they are going to carry strong forces.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Dream, Strong, People

  Speech on the CII Annual General Meeting & National Conference, online.wsj.com. April 4, 2013.

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• Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?

  Dorothy Norman

  Dream, Artist, Self

  Dorothy Norman (1969). “The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol”, Anchor Books

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• But then to part! to part when Time Has wreathed his tireless wing with flowers, And spread the richness of a clime Of fairy o'er this land of ours; When glistening leaves and shaded streams In the soft light of Autumn lay, And, like the music of our dreams, The viewless breezes seemed to stray 'T was bitter then to rend the heart With the sad thought that we must part; And, like some low and mournful spell, To whisper but one word farewell!

  Benjamin

  Dream, Flower, Farewell

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• We grow through our dreams. All great men and women are dreamers. Some, however, allow their dreams to die. You should nurse your dreams and protect them through bad times and tough times to the sunshine and light which always come.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Dream, Sunshine, Men

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• Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Passion, Desire

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• Sunrise looks spectacular in the nature; sunrise looks spectacular in the photos; sunrise looks spectacular in our dreams; sunrise looks spectacular in the paintings, because it really is spectacular!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, Nature, Sunrise

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• Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility toward a community of nations only by courting the prospective guilt of the atomic bomb.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Dream, Responsibility, Exercise

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.551, Library of America

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• our dreams draw blood from old sores.

  Ntozake Shange

  Dream, Blood, Draws

  Ntozake Shange (1985). “Spell number seven”

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• It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the dreams we have been dreaming provide a sad picture of us, it should be remembered that - like that first book of Dante's Comedy - they show forth only one region of the psyche. Through them we can read with a peculiar accuracy the fears and confusions that assail us - we can read, in caricature, the Hell in which we are bound. But we cannot read the best hopes of the time.

  Barbara Deming

  Movie, Dream, Book

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• We don't recount our dreams; we construct them with the materials of reality. We aren't looking for God, psychic truth or authenticity, but for esthetic effect. That's why I baptized our movement Structural, or Esthetic, Onirism. Dreams and music were our models.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Dream, Reality, Psychics

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's very difficult to follow our dreams, but it's even more difficult to forget them.

  Arjun Rampal

  Dream, Giving Up, Forget

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• It is the main motivation of mankind to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction--to experience what may be called Personal Freedom.

  Brendon Burchard

  Dream, Motivation, Self

  Brendon Burchard (2017). “High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way”, p.241, Hay House, Inc

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• This is it, in the best possible way. That thing I'm waiting for, that adventure, that movie-score-wor thy experience unfolding gracefully. This is it. Normal, daily life ticking by on our streets and sidewalks, in our houses and apartments, in our beds and at our dinner tables, in our dreams and prayers and fights and secrets - this pedestrian life is the most precious thing any of us will ever experience.

  Shauna Niequist

  Dream, Prayer, Adventure

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• We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams.

  Christine Caine

  Dream, Needs, Rooms

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• Brick walls let us prove how badly we want our dream and they stop those who don't want it enough. Brick walls let us show our dedication.

  Randy Pausch

  Dream, Wall, Dedication

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• America has always been greatest when we dared to be great. We can reach for greatness again. We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful, economic, and scientific gain. Tonight, I am directing NASA to develop a permanently manned space station, and to do it within a decade.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Stars, Greatness

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Trust me, all our dreams are breaking out

  Sabrina Carpenter

  Dream, Trust Me

  Song: We'll Be The Stars, Album: Eyes Wide Open, 2015

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• The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Real, Imagination

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.believermag.com. March 2003.

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• If all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our "dream life" now.

  Tony Robbins

  Dream, Positive Thinking, Kids

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of self as perfect and whole, the loss of a major portion of our infantile, limitless, ain't-I-wonderful narcissism which we had to give up in the face of compelling reality. Modified and reshaped into ethical goals and moral standards and a vision of what at our finest we might be, our dream of perfection lives on--our lost narcissism lives on--in our ego ideal.

  Judith Viorst

  Dream, Giving Up, Growing Up

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver Twist in the poorhouse, holding up an empty bowl and begging, "I want some more"? Isn't it possible that our dream of the good society contained, from the beginning, a hidden violation of the Tenth Commandment "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods"?

  Joy Davidman

  Dream, Twists, Want

  Joy Davidman (1985). “Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments”, p.119, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Means are more important than ends in the civilized struggle for ideas. Our dreams may be the loveliest on earth, but if we wade through blood and terror to achieve them, we will arrive to find ourselves destroyed. Don't kill.

  Yuri Orlov

  Dream, Struggle, Mean

  Yuri Orlov (1991). “Dangerous Thoughts: Memoirs of a Russian Life”, William Morrow

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• Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to different names, dressed differently, perhaps even disguised, perhaps idle and unemployed, their official altars abandoned, their temples feared or simply forgotten.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Dream, Cities, Names

  Phyllis Chesler (1973). “Women & madness”

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• Our dreams are expressions of our inner beauty. I've learned that it's completely okay to want whatever you want.

  Sheri Fink

  Dream, Expression, Inner Beauty

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