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
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
-George Bernard Shaw
If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up.
-Habeed Akande
If you take responsibility for yourself, you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
-Les Brown
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
-Sigmund Freud
In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.
-Steven Kloves
"The movie, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
-Edgar Cayce
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes we give up our dream to accept a larger role in someone else's dream.
-Robert Brault
Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
