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
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
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
-Ashleigh Brilliant
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
-Bill Watterson
"Calvin & Hobbes"
Sometimes we give up our dream to accept a larger role in someone else's dream.
-Robert Brault
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
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees dawn before the rest of the world.
-Oscar Wilde
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
If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up.
-Habeed Akande
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
-Oprah Winfrey
