Our Dreams Quotes - Page 20

• 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

  Dream, Mistake, Fall

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• Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible.

  Malcolm X

  Dream, Successful, Giving

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• I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.

  Jim Carrey

  Dream, Father, Dumb

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• The truth is that even in the information age, information is not enough. 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. Action is what unites every great success. Action is what produces results. Knowledge is only potential power until it comes into the hands of someone who knows how to get himself to take effective action. In fact, the literal definition of the word "power" is "the ability to act."

  Tony Robbins

  Dream, Knowledge, Positive Thinking

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

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• To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To satisfy ourselves, to teach our lovers to satisfy us, to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humor, to make them visible so they cannot be ravaged in the dark without great consequence, so that our center, our point, our motor, our dream, is no longer detached, mutilated, numb, broken, invisible, or ashamed.

  Eve Ensler

  Dream, Pain, Women

  Eve Ensler (1998). “The Vagina Monologues”, Villard Books

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• The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time.
  The second indication of the death of our dreams is certainty.
  The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Inspiration, Firsts

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• The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.

  Paul Shepard

  Dream, World, Realizing

  Paul Shepard (2013). “Coming Home to the Pleistocene”, p.6, Island Press

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• Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.

  Jules Renard

  Dream, Men, Window Panes

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.243, Tin House Books

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• Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Dream, Nature

  Victor Hugo (1845). “The Rhine”, p.128

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• Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.

  Saint Basil

  Dream, Sleep, Exercise

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• The old farm roads a four lane that leads to the mall, and our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.

  Ani DiFranco

  Dream, Fall, Reality

  Song: Subdivision, Album: Revelling / Reckoning

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• It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Art, Media

  Song: Sequel, Album: Sequel, 1981

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• Hence reason also demands that, since our thoughts cannot all be true because we are not wholly perfect, what truth they do possess must inevitably be found in the thoughts we have when awake, rather than in our dreams.

  Rene Descartes

  Dream, Perfect, Body

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• We can't build our dreams on suspicious minds.

  Elvis Presley

  Dream, Advice, Mind

  Song: Suspicious Minds

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• To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.

  John Cheever

  Dream, Pain, Writing

  "From the Sixties—I" by John Cheever, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 1991.

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• In the world of interactive multi-media highways we are all traveling somewhere interactively and we are all shopping for something, our dreams, our hopes, our ambitions for ourselves, for those we love - these little scenarios we play out endlessly in our mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Ambition, Buddhism

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• In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

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• When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Body, Waking

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• What I like to think, and perhaps it is an adolescent thought, is that anything can happen. As long as you think that anything can happen, it will. We're all allowed to have our dreams.

  Anjelica Huston

  Dream, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every morning we have a choice -- forget our dreams or live them.

  Seth Gabel

  Dream, Morning, Choices

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• Reality is greater than our dreams.

  Frederick Sommer

  Photography, Dream, Reality

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• Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice. The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Dream, Drama, Moving

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

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• Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Long, Soul

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• We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.

  Judith Viorst

  Mother, Dream, Brother

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• And our dreams,
  with what frivolity we have pared them
  like toenails, clipped them like ends of
  split hair.

  Denise Levertov

  Dream, Hair, Splits

  Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Paul A. Lacey (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.42, New Directions Publishing

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