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.
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.
- Topic: Dreams
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More Quotes from Anais Nin
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
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It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
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.
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.
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.
Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
Now, I say to you today my friends, event though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.