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
Dream is not what you see in your sleep, it is the thing which does not let you sleep.
-A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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
Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle …a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining to unfurl. And the anticipation nurtures our dream.
-Barbara Winkler "Barbara Winkler"
If you can dream it, you can do it.
-Walt Disney
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams
-Dejan Stojanović
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
-Walt Disney
