Dreams and Imagination

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

THOUGH A GOOD DEAL IS TOO STRANGE TO BE BELIEVED, NOTHING IS TOO STRANGE TO HAVE HAPPENED.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale of all.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offers us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

Dream no small dreams, for they have no power to stir the souls of men.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.

The imagination is man’s power over nature.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat: he stores up a lot of poison.

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. His response was a question: 'Where do you want to go?' 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.'

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

I dream my painting and then paint my dream.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The one without dreams is the one without wings.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Explore your higher latitudes . . . be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, open new channels, not of trade but of thought.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

What one great thing would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail? The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.