The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Dreams are necessary to life.
- Topic: Dreams, Life
- Location: Mono Lake
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
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So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.
A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
