Your dream might change our planet.

 Edward Lindaman
If we advance confidently in the directions of our dreams,
and endeavor to live the life which we have imagined,
we will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

      

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard
  

Didn't we all have dreams when we were young?  But the reality of making
a living took over when we had to pay our bills, rent our apartments, raise
our families, and take care of others.  We sacrificed our dreams, repressed
them, or delegated them to the background until they were so far away
that we forgot they ever existed.

Lucinda Bassett

   

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, “Yes,
I’ve got dreams, of course, I’ve got dreams.”  Then they put the
box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and
yep, they’re still there.  These are great dreams, but they never
even get out of the box.  It takes an uncommon amount of guts
to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, “How
good or bad am I?”  That’s where courage comes in.

Erma Bombeck

   

 Do not pray for dreams equal to your powers.
Pray for powers equal to your dreams.

Phillips Brooks
   
    

   
If you can imagine it you can create it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.

William Arthur Ward
    

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

Sue Ebaugh
    

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success
but significance--and then even the small steps and little victories
along your path will take on greater meaning.

Oprah Winfrey
   

   

Dreams come true.  Without that possibility,
nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike
   

Great dreams contain inexhaustible
truths, and orient us, like runes,
toward our futures.  One hesitates
to try to explain them; one wants
to dance them, act them out in living
gestures.  The more we put ourselves
into a great dream, the more we get
back.  Great dreams are wells
that never run dry.

Michael Grosso
  

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready
to pay the price to make them come true.

Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens
  

  

To dream anything that you want to dream.  That's the beauty of
the human mind.  To do anything that you want to do.
That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself
to test your limits.  That is the courage to succeed.

Bernard Edmonds
    
You are never too old to set another
goal or to dream a new dream.

C.S. Lewis

If one dream should fall and break into a
thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick
one of those pieces up and begin again.

Flavia Weedn

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
Always remember, you have within you
the strength, the patience, and the passion to
reach for the stars to change the world.

Harriet Tubman

Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become.

unattributed
   
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.

Mary Manin Morrissey
   

   

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go,
only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.

Karen Ravn
   
Be careful what you water your dreams with.  Water them with
worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life
from your dream.  Water them with optimism and solutions and
you will cultivate success.  Always be on the lookout for ways to
turn a problem into an opportunity for success.  Always be on
the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

Lao Tzu
   

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
   
It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama
and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open
to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit--enable
them to see visions and dream dreams.

Eric Anderson
   

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest
spark in the dreaming youth - is this:  dream a great dream.

John A. Appleman
   

   

A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then
flourish rapidly. . . . Be patient. It will
happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary
of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and
then it will let you in and throw you a real party!

Lester Louis Brown
   
   

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and
reality.  If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Belva Davis
   

God does not want us to abandon our dreams, but will lovingly work
with us  to refine our unrealistic dreams, to restore our broken dreams,
to realize our delayed dreams, and to redesign our shattered dreams
so both his purposes and our dreams can be fulfilled.

Ken Abraham
   
    

Faith and hope are the antidote.  Stay actively involved in manifesting
your dreams and the world created will be one we all want to live in.

Jewel Kilcher
   

Dare to err and to dream.
Deep meaning often lies in childish games.

Johann Friedrich von Schiller
   
You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail.
Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Les Brown
    

   

Nothing is as real as a dream.  The world can change around you,
but your dream will not.  Responsibilities need not erase it.
Duties need not obscure it.
Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.

Tom Clancy
   
Dreamers and doers--the world generally divides people into those
two general classifications, but the world is often wrong.  There are
people who win the admiration of their fellow people.  They are the
people worth while.  Dreaming is just another name for thinking,
planning, devising--another way of saying that a person exercises
his or her soul.  A steadfast soul, holding steadily to a dream ideal,
plus a sturdy will determined to succeed in any venture, can make
any dream come true. Use your mind and your will.  They work
together for you beautifully if you'll only give them a chance.

B.N. Mills
   

Poor people are not those who are without a cent,
but those who are without a dream.

Harry Kemp
    
     
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 through.

Woodrow Wilson

also attributed to Woodrow Wilson:

All big people are dreamers.  They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in red
fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let 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.
    

All men and women are born, live, suffer, and die; what distinguishes us
one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly
or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about.

Joseph Epstein
   

   

Allow yourself to dream again.  If I were your fairy godmother and I could
sprinkle fairy dust on you and grant you one wish, what would it be?  It's
time to stop talking about not having a dream and start figuring out what it
is and how to achieve it.  Be your own fairy godmother.

Lucinda Bassett
   
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life,
but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Susan Sontag
   

   

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

George Moore
   

Dreams are real while they last; can we say more of life?

Havelock Ellis
   
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Chuang Tzu
   

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Here is the big picture:  Life is too short to not pursue your dreams.  Someday
your life will near its end and all you will be able to do is look backwards.  You
can reflect with joy or regret.  Those who dream, who set goals and act on
them to live out their dreams are those who live lives of joy and have a sense
of peace when they near the end of their lives.  They have finished well, for
themselves and for their families.  Remember:  These are the dreams and goals
that are born out of your heart and mind.  These are the goals that are unique
to you and come from who you were created to be and gifted to become.

Jim Rohn
    

Dreams are renewable.  No matter what our age or condition,
there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dale E. Turner

   

Unfortunately, as we get older, reason and logic push wishes and dreams
to the side.  It's as if adulthood pulls the whimsy right out from under our
noses.  Yet most people who accomplish the seemingly impossible are
quick to point out that sometimes dreams really do come true.  Think of
the difference between moving mountains and believing in moving
mountains.  That will is not unlike the famous train who thought it could
and, finally, did get over the mountain.  The trains that came before
didn't believe it was possible to get to the other side. . . . If you dream
about something coming true, it's a kind of wish fulfillment.
And even then, that may be all we have.

Leslie Levine
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