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
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
-Sigmund Freud
Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask.
-Anonymous
"Television Series, “X-Files"
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
If you take responsibility for yourself, you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
-Les Brown
There is a fine line between dreams and reality; it's up to you to draw it.
-Anonymous
Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Sometimes we give up our dream to accept a larger role in someone else's dream.
-Robert Brault
Dreams won't always take you on a straight path to destiny, but they're usually related to what your soul wants for you.
-Kelly Cutrone
"If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You"
