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
Judge your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
-Gail Godwin
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
-Mary Manin Morrissey
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
-Bill Watterson
"Calvin & Hobbes"
In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.
-Steven Kloves
"The movie, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
