Dreams and Imagination

Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

And by the vision splendid

Whither is fled the visionary gleam?

The light that never was, on sea or land,

Electric Kool-Aid Acid test.

I used to be Snow White … but I drifted.

Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out

I was the giant great and still

Many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese—toasted, mostly.

Rarely, rarely, comest thou,

My soul is an enchanted boat,

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Come to me in the silence of the night;

And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming.

All that we see or seem

I was a child and she was a child,

Behold! human beings living in a underground den … Like ourselves … they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.

Mankind is a dream of a shadow.