On dreams

"Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy. "

Ray Charles

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit."

Wilma Rudolph

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced."

Swami Vivekananda

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

Henry David Thoreau

"It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin."

Benjamin Elijah Mays

"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."

Anaïs Nin

"Nothing happens unless first we dream."

Carl Sandburg

"People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of."

Paulo Coelho

"In my dreams, I never have an age."

Madeleine L'Engle

"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

"It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you."

Million Dollar Baby

Neil Jordan

"Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?"

Neil Jordan (The Dream of a Beast)

Calvin and Hobbes

“I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.”

"Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.”

“People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”

“We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.”

"Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.”

“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.”

"Life is never easy for those who dream.”

“Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”

"Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.”

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction.”

“Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine, and valleys of frustration and failure.”

Robin Jones Gunn

"You know what I think? I think that if a young woman doesn't engage in the act of occasionally wishing on a star or a flower or a birthday cake full of candles, then we're forfeiting one of the sweetest whimsies of our youth."

Robin Jones Gunn