Dreams

Hold fast to your dreams

for if dreams die

life is a broken-winged bird

that cannot fly. 

Hold fast to dreams

for when dreams go,

life is a barren field

frozen with snow.

            --  Langston Hughes

Agnes Whistling Elk: Dream your Passion. Fly away. Go through the hoop of your innermost fears and desires. Meet them and conquer them. Come through your own reflection. Act in your dreams as you want to act and find the guarded kivas where you have hidden your heart.   --  Lynn Andrews, Medicine Woman

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.    --  Maya Angelou

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.       

           ~~  Cynthia Ozick 

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

             --  Kahlil Gibran

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.    --  Les Brown

We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere. 

            ~~ Orison Swett Marden

What you choose to focus your mind on is critical because you will become what you think about most of the time.   

             --  Noel Peebles

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

             --  William Arthur Ward

If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?     --  Oscar Hammerstein

If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.

             --  Richard M. DeVos

If you have built castles in the air,

your work need not be lost;

there is where they should be.

Now put foundations under them.

             --  Henry David Thoreau

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

 --  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work.

Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.

             --  Thomas Robert Gaines

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

             --  Les Brown

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.

Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

             --  Mark Twain

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

             --  Antoine De Saint-Exupery

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

             --  Orison Swett Marden

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.  

            --  Walt Disney