Yuri Kochiyama Quotes

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself. Sometimes you have to get out of that environment in order to see your dream fulfilled.

People who dream small dreams continue to live as small people.

Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.

The true value of a big dream is who you must grow into to live that dream.

The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . . Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.

My life is a dream come true of a dream I never knew I even had

If your dream ain't bigger than you, there's a problem with your dream.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.

If you educate children, then they are capable of so much - you empower them, you give them choices, and you enable them to create the lives that they dream for themselves.

As for my destination, I don’t think I ever knew one. I walk, I run in the direction of my dreams. Things change along the way, people change, I change, the world changes, even my dreams change. I don’t have a place to arrive, I just keep doing what I know how to do, the best that I can do it. I’ll probably end up a deluded geriatric in a wheelchair wearing a cape and tights, imagining my own flight out of this world, but of course with a young girl in my arms.

You sit in your tepee and dream and then you go to wherever the dream may take you. It might come true. You wait for real life to catch up.

If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive.

Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.

It’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits.

My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had as a child for a better life.

Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.

Feeling lost? Take a dream and convert it into small goals, then start taking the steps to hit those goals.

Dreamers don't have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams.

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world!

There is no authentic goal you can set for yourself that can't be reached, no dream that can't be realized. It's just a matter of learning HOW to achieve what you want.

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.

True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.