Ester asked why people are sad.
“That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
Quotations
Dream
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
-Anaïs Nin
Sometimes we give up our dream to accept a larger role in someone else's dream.
-Robert Brault
Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle …a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining to unfurl. And the anticipation nurtures our dream.
-Barbara Winkler "Barbara Winkler"
We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more intelligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.
-Erich Fromm
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
-Edgar Cayce
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. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
-Henry David Thoreau
Dream is not what you see in your sleep, it is the thing which does not let you sleep.
-A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up.
-Habeed Akande
