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
If you take responsibility for yourself, you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
-Les Brown
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
-Marsha Norman
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"
Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of what-if.
-Dodinsky
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"
Judge your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.
-Tupac Shakur
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
-Anaïs Nin
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
-Thomas Jefferson
