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
If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up.
-Habeed Akande
In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.
-Steven Kloves
"The movie, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of what-if.
-Dodinsky
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
The light of starry dreams can only be seen once we escape the blinding cities of disbelief.
-Shawn Purvis
If you can dream it, you can do it.
-Walt Disney
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
-Sigmund Freud
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
-George Bernard Shaw
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
-Henry David Thoreau
