Mamacita says: Dusty Springfield sang about Wishing and Hoping; Cinderella sang A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes.
There’s something so uniquely wonderful about a favorite student who grows up and still wants to talk to you regularly. I have a lot of these in my life, and I thank God daily for them.
This is for them.
1. If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, y ou can become it. –William Arthur Ward
2. Life is a cup to be filled, not drained. –Unknown
3. What we need is more people who specialize in the impossibhle. –Theodore Roethke
4. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life y ou’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. –Henry David Thoreau
5. Magic has often been thought of as the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it. –Starhawk
6. Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams y ou want to realize. Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and the use establish the life you experience. –Sonia Croquette
7. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. –Eleanor Roosevelt
8. In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream. –Luigi Pirandello
9. Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. –John Updike
10. Empower your dreams with deadlines. –H. Jackson Brown
11. There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream – whatever that dream might be. –Pearl S. Buck
12. In dreams begins responsibility. –William Butler Yeats
13. All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. –Elias Canetti
14. Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations. –Ralph Charell
15. I learned that there were two ways I could live my life: following my dreams or doing something else. Dreams aren’t a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. When I dream, I believe I am rehearsing my future. –David Copperfield
16. A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace. –Walter de la Mare
Never lose sight of your wishes and dreams. . .
17. When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been. –Patch Adams
18. Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so ou 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
19. Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. –Unknown
20. In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. –Janos Arany
21. The dream is real, my friends. the failure to realize it is the only unreality. –Toni Cade Bambara
22. Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. –Sir James M. Barrie
23. Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them. –Josie Bisset
24. I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. –Emily Bronte
25. Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams. –Joyce Brothers
26. I dream; therefore I become. –Cheryl Grossman
27. We are not hypocrites in our sleep. –William Hazlitt
28. Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare. –H.F. Hedge
29. All men of action are dreams. –James G. Huneker
30. Most people never run far enough on their first wind, to find out if they’ve got a second. give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you. –William James
31. When we are dreaming alone, it is only a dream. when we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality. –Dom Helder Camara
32. The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. –Elizabeth Gilbert
33. Some men see things as they are and say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were, and I say, “Why not?” –George Bernard Shaw (Bobby Kennedy wasn’t the first to say it. He should have cited his source!)
34. Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem
35. 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
36. 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. –Hobbes (yup, THAT Hobbes.)
37. Like all dreams, I confuse disenchantment with truth. –Jean-Paul Sartre
38. Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. –Charles William Dement
39. There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. –Douglas Everett
40. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. –William Faulkner
41. I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts – that hope always triumphs over experience – that laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. –Robert Fulghum
42. The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. –Kahlil Gibran
43. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. –Marcel Proust
44. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails Explore. Dream. Discover. –Mark Twain
45. If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. –Mary Beth Danielson
46. There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. –Victor Hugo
47. Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. –Virginia Woolf
48. Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. A dream is an answer to a question we haven’t yet learned how to ask. –Fox Mulder
50. Your hopes, dreams, and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them. –William James
51. A goal is a dream with a deadline. –Duke Ellington
52. Dreams are wishes caste upon stars, so catch a shining one – take your friend’s hand, and hold on forever. –Traci Brown
53. Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn’t all a dream? –Ashleigh Brilliant
54. Dreams die hard, and you hold them in your hands long after they’ve turned to dust. –from Dragonheart
55. Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. –William Dement
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, one night, set sail in a wooden shoe.
56. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. –Mark Twain
57. A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. –Antoine de Saint-Exupery
58. 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
59. There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own, for you are unique and more wondrous than you know. –Linda Staten
60. We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams. –Arthur O’Shaughnessy
61. If you talk to your children, you can help them to keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams. –Jim Rohn
62. Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be here, but you will have ceased to live. –Lady Nancy Astor
63. When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old. –William J. Clinton
64. Sometimes dreams alter the course of an entire life. –Judith Duerk
65. Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them. -P.F. Harlock
66. I had a dream, and it landed right here in my hand. —Robert Richard Toth
67. In dreams begins responsibility. William Butler Yeats
68. Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don’t. –Brett Butler
69. He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. –Douglas Adams
70. 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 their dream with open eyes, to make it possible –T.E. Lawrence
71. Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. –John Updike
72. Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. –Unknown
73. Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. — Marsha Norman
74. Dreams–a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. –Erich Fromm
75. Never laugh at anyone’s dreams. People who don’t have dreams don’t have much. –Unknown