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
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
Employing your imagination is the first step to the fulfillment of any dream.
-Richelle E. Goodrich
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.
-Tupac Shakur
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
-Thomas Jefferson
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
-Ashleigh Brilliant
Lost dreams may help you find new dreams.
-John Charles White
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
-Henry David Thoreau
Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of what-if.
-Dodinsky
Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.
-Eileen Elias Freeman
"The Angels' Little Instruction Book"
