“Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.”— Neal Shusterman, amazon.com
“There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone’s heart.”— Colleen McCullough, amazon.com
“We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn’t big enough for all that wanting. I don’t know. I don’t know anything.”— John Updike, amazon.com
“Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t dream at all.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“How deeply do any of us know our own selves? Ask yourself. We hold a picture of how we wish to be and hope it goes forever unchallenged. Passing through life never pursuing aspects of our natures with which we’d rather not reckon. Dying strangers to ourselves.”— Craig Davidson, amazon.com
“A lot of people tell me I’m a bit dreamy. But I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.”— Alex Turner, genius.com
“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good eith…”— Roald Dahl, amazon.com
“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.”— Walt Disney, amazon.com
“Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. H…”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.”— Elie Wiesel, nobelprize.org
“Pause now to ask yourself the following question: ‘Am I dreaming or awake, right now?’ Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer.”— Stephen LaBerge, amazon.com
“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.”— William Jennings Bryan , amazon.com