“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.”— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com
“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“At the end of the day, life’s about realising one’s human potential. I don’t know if I’ve realised mine, but I’ve certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.”— Linton Kwesi Johnson, facebook.com
“My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“...you will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.”— Christopher Pike, amazon.com
“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“If this is the only life, then why am I not just doing everything I want to do?”— James Franco, youtube.com
“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.”— Katharine Hepburn, amazon.com
“Everything is habit forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.”— Wilt Chamberlain, amazon.com
“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Dreams are neurological illusions, yet this fact can be proven only on waking up. If you are already awake in the typical sense—walking around, talking to other people, going to work, etc.—it’s easy to believe that this world is independently real and not another kind of neurological illusion. But t…”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“It’s better to die chasing a dream never caught than to die never having chased the dream.”— Joyce Fields, amazon.com