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
Sometimes we give up our dream to accept a larger role in someone else's dream.
-Robert Brault
Participate in your own dreams, don’t just say what you want or complain about what you don’t have.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.
-Steven Kloves
"The movie, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
Dream is not what you see in your sleep, it is the thing which does not let you sleep.
-A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
-Edgar Cayce
Employing your imagination is the first step to the fulfillment of any dream.
-Richelle E. Goodrich
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
-Walt Disney
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
When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
