1103 – Dreams by Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dream
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.”

-Langston Hughes

1078 – “If your world doesn’t allow you to dream, move to one where you can.”

-Billy Idol [Attributed]

1012 – “Mas, sea verdad o sueño, obrar bien es lo que importa. Si fuere verdad, por serlo; si no, por ganar amigos para cuando despertemos.”

“But whether it be truth or dream, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth’s sake. If not, then to gain friends for when we awaken.”

-Segismundo in Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s play La vida es sueño

990 – “Pour accomplir de grandes choses il ne suffit pas d’agir, il faut rêver; il ne suffit pas de calculer, il faut croire.”

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

-Anatole France

573 – “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. “

–Sarah Frances Brown [See Source Notes]

534 – “When I look down at this golden statue, may it remind me and every little child that no matter where you’re from your dreams are valid.”

–Lupita Nyong’o

368 – “When you are in the dream, the dream doesn’t seem, to even be a dream. So, how an I deem, what I’m currently seeing, as the not being, just another dream dreaming?”

–Poet Christopher

262 – “When you wake up in the morning you have two choices… go back to sleep and dream your dreams or wake up and chase those dreams.”

–anonymous

135 – “It was rather beautiful: the way he put her insecurities to sleep. The way he dove into her eyes and starved all the fears and tasted all the dreams she kept coiled beneath her bones.”

– Christopher Poindexter

83 – “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art – write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”

– Neil Gaiman