"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..."
-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."
-Anon.

The vision that you glorify in your mind,the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by,and this you will become.
-James Allen

Dream lofty dreams,and as you dream,so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
-James Allen

The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn.
-James Allen

O reason,reason,abstract phantom of the waking state,I had already expelled you from my dreams,now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
-Louis Aragon,Paris Peasant,"Preface to a Modern Mythology",1926

"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."
-Peter S. Beagle,from the Forward to The Fellowship of the Ring

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
-Bo Bennett
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.
-André Breton,Surrealist Manifestos,1924

The notion of this universe,its heavens,hells,and everything within it,as a great dream dreamed by a single being in which all the dream characters are dreaming too,has in India enchanted and shaped the entire civilization. The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean,couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta,the meaning of whose name is "Unending." In the foreground stand the five Pandava brothers,heroes of the epic Mahabharata,with Draupadi,their wife: allegorically ,she is the mind and they are the five senses. They are those whom the dream is dreaming. Eyes open,ready and willing to fight,the youths address themselves to this world of light in which we stand regarding them,where objects appear to be distinct from each other,and an Aristotelian logic prevails,and A is not not-A. Behind them a dream-door has opened,however,to an inward,backward dimension where a vision emerges against darkness...
-Joseph Campbell,The Mythic Image

"That," Verena managed after some suspenseful seconds,"is," she said,regarding her gloved hands,"remarkable. Very. I wouldn't have credited either of you with so much imagination. Or is it that I am imagining? Quite likely I'm dreaming of myself in a wet tree on a thundery night. Except I never have dreams,or perhaps I only forget them. This one I suggest we all forget." "I'll own up: I think it is a dream. Miss Verena. But a man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat: he stores up a lot of poison."
-Truman Capote,The Glass Harp

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
-Edgar Cayce

"Anyone can escape into sleep,we are all geniuses when we dream,the butcher's the poet's equal there."
-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 heaven
and there plucked an strange and beautiful flower?
And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand?
Ah,what then?
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret,it seems to me,can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity,confidence,courage,and constancy.
-Walt Disney

"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."
-Erich Fromm,The Forgotten Language

I speak of love that comes to mind:
The moon is faithful,although blind;
She moves in thought she cannot speak.
Perfect care has made her bleak.
I never dreamed the sea so deep,
The earth so dark; so long my sleep,
I have become another child.
I wake to see the world go wild.
-Allen Ginsberg,An Eastern Ballad

Whatever you can do or dream you can,begin it. Boldness has genius,power and magic in it. Begin it now.
-Johann von Goethe

I wept in my dreams.
I dreamed you lay in the grave;
I awoke,and the tears
still 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 still
the flow of my tears streams on.
-Heinrich Heine

Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
-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."
-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.
-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.
-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."
-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.
-Orison Swett Marden

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

I fly in dreams,I know it is my privilege,I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse,a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.
-Friedrich Nietzsche,[Unpublished fragments dating to Fall 1881]

"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."
-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 deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night,or in a day,
In a vision,or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream."
-Edgar Allan Poe,Dream Within A Dream,A

Deep into the darkness peering,long I stood there,wondering,fearing,
Doubting,dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
-Edgar Allan Poe,The Raven

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

"The dust of many crumbled cities settles over us like a forgetful doze,but we are older than those cities. We began as a mineral. We emerged into plant life and into the animal state,and then into being human,and always we have forgotten our former states,except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again. That's how a young person turns toward a teacher. That's how a baby leans toward the breast,without knowing the secret of its desire,yet turning instinctively. Humankind is being led along an evolving course,through this migration of intelligences,and though we seem to be sleeping,there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream,and that will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are."
-Rumi,"The Dream That Must Be Interpreted"

You can’t experience success beyond your wildest dreams until you dare to dream something wild!
-Scott Sorrell

“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!”
-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!”
-Conway Stone

"Once I dreamed I was a butterfly,and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu,who dreamed I was a butterfly,or whether I am a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang Tzu."
-Chuang Tzu

Dreams come true; without that possibility,nature would not incite us to have them.
-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.
-Vincent van Gogh,Letter to Theo van Gogh,July 9,1888

Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams
In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight
That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams,
And shoot the shadows through and through with light?
What matters one lost vision of the night?
Let the dream go! ...
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox,"Let Them Go"

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die,but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
-Woodrow Wilson

"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."
-Yamamoto Tsunetomo,Hagakure