It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Topic: Action, Dreams
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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You cannot save people. You can only love them.
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.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
Looking at the stars always makes me dream.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.
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.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
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.
