Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of.

What I'm interested in is happiness with a full awareness of the tragedy of life, the potential tragedy that lurks around every corner and the tragedy that actually is life.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

Life is only what you wonder. Day is light as your brightest dream.

We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.

Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.

The happiest people are fearless dreamers. They use their imaginations to create hope and possibility.

Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.

There are worse things to be called than a dreamer.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.

Please do not lose the ability to dream

She had a way of embroidering life with stars.

Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

Anything is possible, and that’s something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.

Reality and fantasy, we need both of those to survive. If we don't have fantasy, dreams and all of those things, what's the point of carrying on? And you need to watch out for reality because buses come.

He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.

Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.

It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.