Fernando Pessoa Quotes

Man is what his dreams are.

We understand and promote the notion that while children need to be guided they also have an entrenched right to be whatever they want to be and that they can achieve this only if they are given the space to dream and live out their dreams.

I had dreams. And I had to pursue them; otherwise my soul would have shriveled. The hardest part was allowing myself to want something other than what was socially acceptable, telling myself to go after it, then actually doing it.

Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.

The purpose of life is to live your dreams, you should never smother your wishes.

Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they?

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

In every role, a part of me gets to come out.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

One of the most important results you can bring into the world is the you that you really want to be.

I wake up with new dreams every day...more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me.

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.

Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.

The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

...because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living.

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

Each day that you're moving toward your dreams without compromising who you are, you're winning