Our Dreams Quotes - Page 13

• We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our futures. We are leaving certain things in the medicine cabinet. We are falling in love.

  Pete Wentz

  Dream, Falling In Love, Talking

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Flaws, Failing

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• The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.

  Audre Lorde

  Dream, Father, Thinking

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• It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Believe, Heart

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• There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with whom we feel we have unfinished business. While they may no longer be with us, a faint aroma of their presence remains, a presence that haunts us until we make our peace with them and let them go. The problem, however, is that we tend to spend a great deal of energy in attempting to avoid the truth. We construct an image of ourselves that seeks to shield us from a confrontation with our ghosts. Hence we often encounter them only late at night, in the corridors of our dreams.

  Peter Rollins

  Dream, Memories, Night

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• We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Positive, Dream, Time

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• It is a horrible idea that there is somebody who owns us, who makes us, who supervises us - waking and sleeping - who knows our thoughts, who can convict us of thought crime, thought crime, just for what we think, who can judge us while we sleep for things that might occur to us in our dreams, who can create us sick, as apparently we are - and then order us, on pain of eternal torture to be well again.
  To demand this, to wish this to be true is to wish to live as an abject slave.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Dream, Pain, Sleep

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• I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Motivational, Dream, Real

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• In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we’re fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Dream, Kings, Queens

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1279, Penguin UK

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• Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.

  Jim Carroll

  Dream, Light, Color

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• Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Effort, Alive

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• We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Dream, Sometimes, Anticipate

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.593, Ballantine Books

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• We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don't, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Soul, Frustrated

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Dream, Steps, Senses

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• The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Inspiration

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• God surpasses our dreams when we reach past our personal plans and agenda to grab the hand of Christ and walk the path he chose for us.  He is obligated to keep us dissatisfied until we come to him and his plan for complete satisfaction.

  Beth Moore

  Dream, Past, Hands

  Beth Moore (2007). “Breaking Free: Discover the Victory of Total Surrender”, p.161, B&H Publishing Group

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• So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother and someone’s older sister – they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother – and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them.

  John Irving

  Mother, Dream, Brother

  John Irving (1986). “The Hotel New Hampshire”

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• We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.

  Pete Hautman

  Dream, Miles Apart, Thousand

  Pete Hautman (2011). “The Big Crunch”, p.123, Scholastic Inc.

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• My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Heart, Thinking

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.1459, Simon and Schuster

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• Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

  George R. R. Martin

  Dream

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “Dreamsongs 2-Book Bundle: Dreamsongs Volumes I and II”, p.437, Bantam

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• The universe always helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Fighting, May

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• It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.

  Pierre Curie

  Love, Dream, Soulmate

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• We spoke about our dreams and how we always felt safe in them, no matter how bad everthing else seemed. He told me it was one of the best days of his life and then he took out his gun. A .22 rifle. And he leaned forward and whispered, "Forgive me, Taylor Markham." Before I could ask how he knew my name and what I was to forgive him for he said, "Take care of my little girl." And then he told me to close my eyes. And I've been frightened to do just that ever since.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Dream, Eye

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• Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Music, Dream, Peace

  Entry for March 17, 1870, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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