Broken Dreams Quotes

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

  George A. Moore

  Love, Running, Dream

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• Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Dream, Sadness, Mean

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• We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Unicorn, Seems

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams.

  James Franco

  Dream, Disappointment, Dark

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• Let go of your expectations. The universe will do what it will. Sometimes your dreams will come true. Sometimes they won't. Sometimes when you let go of a broken dream, another one gently takes its place. Be aware of what is, not what you would like to be, taking place.

  Melody Beattie

  Letting Go, Dream, Broken

  Melody Beattie (2009). “More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations”, p.24, Hazelden Publishing

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  Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

  Langston Hughes

  Love, Inspirational, Change

  "Dreams" l. 1 (1929)

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• In the town of broken dreams the streets are filled with regret, maybe down in lonesome town I can learn to forget.

  Ricky Nelson

  Dream, Regret, Reality

  Song: Lonesome Town

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• With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

  Max Ehrmann

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.10, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• Jesus knows the burdens we carry and the tears we shed, but He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams, and broken lives. Trust him. He never fails.

  John Hagee

  Dream, Jesus, Heart

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• In every human heart is a place where you put all your broken dreams. When something doesn't work out, no matter what it may be, you just have to give it up and stuff it in with your broken dreams. And make sure you keep the lid on tight.

  Sayo Masuda

  Dream, Heart, Broken

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• Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Dream, Hurt, Heart

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  A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

  William Faulkner

  Love, Inspirational, Wisdom

  William Faulkner (2011). “Flags in the Dust: The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, which appeared in a cut version as Sartoris”, p.68, Vintage

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• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• And whatever your labors and aspirations,
  in the noisy confusion of life,
  keep peace in your soul.
  With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

  Max Ehrmann

  Beautiful, Dream, Broken

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.10, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Good Night, Dream

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.296, OUP Oxford

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• By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams.

  Jon Stewart

  Dream, Broken, Bottles

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• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love, Inspirational, Graduation

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Success, Dream

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from May 16, 2013

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• Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

  Justin Timberlake

  Moving On, Break Up, Sympathy

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• The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.

  Courtney Love

  Dream, Jobs, Rocks

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• Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Success, Leadership

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• Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

  Concha Buika

  Dream, Vegas, Strange Places

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