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"If you have only two pennies left in the world, with the first penny, you should buy rice to feed your family. With the second penny, say the wise Japanese, you should buy a lily. The Japanese understand the importance of dreaming..." http://www.weyrd.org/lilies.html
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-Japanese Proverb, from "Lilies" Words and Music: Annie Walker, October, 1999

"When one of your dreams come true, you begin to look at the others more carefully."
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-Anon.

"For in the end it is Middle-Earth and its dwellers that we love, not Tolkien's considerable gifts in showing it to us. I said once that the world he charts was there long before him, and I still believe it. He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."
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-Peter S. Beagle, from the Forward to The Fellowship of the Ring

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
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-Bo Bennett

"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."
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-E. M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heavenand there plucked an strange and beautiful flower?And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand?Ah, what then?
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-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."
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-Erich Fromm, The Forgotten Language

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. According to: http://www.goethesociety.org/pages/quotescom.html "the lines are attributed to John Anster in a 'very free translation' of Faust from 1835" See author: W. H. Murray
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-Johann von Goethe

I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave;I awoke, and the tearsstill poured down my cheeks.I wept in my dreams,I dreamed you had left me;I awoke and I went on weeping long and bitterly.I wept in my dreams,I dreamed you were still kind to me;I awoke, and stillthe flow of my tears streams on.
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-Heinrich Heine

Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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-Napoleon Hill

"If you force the trail to emerge and turn with your every command, then most likely it will only become what you imagined. If you just enjoy the anticipation of each new curve and seize it as it comes, the road around the bend might lead to the unimaginable."
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-Bryan Hufalar, (quotation submitted to Quoteland)

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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-Carl Gustav Jung

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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-Thomas Edward Lawrence (of Arabia)

"One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams."
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-E. V. Lucas, 365 Days and One More

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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-Orison Swett Marden

Sweet is the dream, divinely sweet, when absent souls in fancy meet.
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-Sir Thomas More

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
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-Anais Nin, The Diaries of Anaïs Nin

"Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less gone?All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream."
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-Edgar Allan Poe, Dream Within A Dream, A

"A man's dreams are an index to his greatness."
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-Zadok Rabinwitz

We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind. as cited by Susan Sackett, author of "Inside Trek: A Star Trek Memoir", used with permission
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-Gene Roddenberry, on receiving his honorary Doctorate at Emerson College, Boston in the early 1970s

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
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-Eleanor Roosevelt

“We must nurture our dreams like we would a child. They are God-given and just as precious. Without ambition how would a child learn to ride a bicycle, play an instrument or whistle? We deny the spirit of God when we as adults settle for less than our dreams!”
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-Conway Stone

“Dreaming is not an accident. It is not a wistful idea you hope will come true. Dreaming is not the stuff of long-haired hippies wistfully running along a beach. No! Dreaming is a sophisticated tool used by the elite of our society to make themselves and this world a better place. People like Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity, Warren Buffet, Col. Sanders and Walt Disney all started with a dream. The dreams started small, but like the trickle of water that eventually formed the great Grand Canyon, DREAMS ARE POWERFUL!”
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-Conway Stone

We bless and curse ourselves. Some dreams are divine, as well as some waking thoughts. Donne sings of one "Who dreamt devoutlier than most use to pray." Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. We are scarcely less afflicted when we remember some unworthiness in our conduct in a dream, than if it had been actual, and the intensity of our grief, which is our atonement, measures inversely the degree by which this is separated from an actual unworthiness. For in dreams we but act a part which must have been learned and rehearsed in our waking hours, and no doubt could discover some waking consent thereto. If this meanness has not its foundation in us, why are we grieved at it? In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. But an unwavering and commanding virtue would compel even its most fantastic and faintest dreams to respect its ever wakeful authority; as we are accustomed to say carelessly, we should never have dreamed of such a thing. Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. http://national-library.elecbook.net/830.html
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-Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
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-John Updike

For my own part, I declare I know nothing whatever about it. But to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France? If we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star. One thing undoubtedly true in this reasoning is this: that while we are alive we cannot get to a star, any more than when we are dead we can take the train.
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-Vincent van Gogh, Letter to Theo van Gogh, July 9, 1888

"It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this."
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-Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure

"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. published in the collection "The Wind Among the Reeds" and quoted in the movie "Equilibrium" (2002)
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-William Butler Yeats, He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, 1899


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