Day and night I always dream with open eyes." - José Martí
I spend so much time hoping things for myself.
I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.
It might not be your day that day, but just stay positive and things will get better.
I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies but the worms know better, don't they? They slide into the ear of a corpse and listen to his great sigh.
Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.
When you live in a city with no stars to wish on, you have to wish on each other.
From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination.
I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it.
Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.
But you built me dreams instead.
The food of hope is meditative action.
It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream.
You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
Remember me when you do pray, that hope doth lead from day to day.
You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.
The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.
The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.
Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply because it comes after. There are things a young man knows that are true and are not yet in the old man's power to recollect. Spring has its sappy wisdom.
There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.
The truth is, even those who think Dreams only happen to someone else carry a Dream hidden deep in their heart, just hoping it can come true.
But if one's dreams having to come true was the only referendum on whether they were beautiful, or worth dreaming, well then, no one would wish for anything. And that would be so much sadder.
