“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.”
Quotes about dreams
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“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour, fact and his dreaming meet.”
“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
“When you cease to dream you cease to live.”
“Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.”
“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
“Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”
“I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.”
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.”
“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”
“If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.”
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
“Keep true to the dreams of your youth.”
“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”
“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
“Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.”
“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”
“Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.”
“Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.”
“I know how men in exile feed on dreams.”
“Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.”