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A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
The most remarkable thing about a man's dreams is that they will all come true; this has always been the case, though no one would care to admit it. And a peculiarity of man's behaviour is that he is not in the least surprised when his dreams come true; it is as if he expected nothing else. The goal to be reached and the determination to reach it are brother and sister, and slumber in the same heart.
Independent People
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
An impression has gone through me, like those fragments of fugitive dreams trying to get out of the dream in order to reveal it.
Rue des Boutiques Obscures (Missing Person)
That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged � to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.
Gertrude
Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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