Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Dream
Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of what-if.
-Dodinsky
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
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"
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
-Marsha Norman
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
-William Faulkner
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach
"Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy"
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
-Ashleigh Brilliant
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
-Edgar Allan Poe
