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
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
-Ashleigh Brilliant
Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of what-if.
-Dodinsky
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.
-Tupac Shakur
Participate in your own dreams, don’t just say what you want or complain about what you don’t have.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
Sometimes we give up our dream to accept a larger role in someone else's dream.
-Robert Brault
Lost dreams may help you find new dreams.
-John Charles White
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
-George Bernard Shaw
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
-Gail Godwin
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
