Sometimes, we'll find ourselves having no choice but to wake up from our dreams. There is of course the risk of facing the facts that our dreams are nothing real to begin with, but embracing reality will allow us to get a real inner and outer perspective of our lives - and enable us to live real lives and do real work for dreams that can be made into a reality.
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Related Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tel... SIRI HUSTVEDT Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. TUPAC SHAKUR Treasures are hidden and hard to find but if we could find a real treasure, it will shine our lives.... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real. NED VIZZINI Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs. JACK JOHNSON Our fanciful dreams must give way to the will of the Lord who will shape us to dream greater dreams ... JAIME CONTRERAS Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made... S.A.R.K. I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything i... ANTHONY ROBBINS People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are re... NEIL GAIMAN Real is not Dreams, Dreams are not Real, Unless you find the fine line...and erase it C. ELIZABETH Our personal experiences and mental reasoning skills establish the range of our perception of realit... KILROY J. OLDSTER Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, ... HENRY REED Look into your heart and find your real self,
Put your mask away and show your real face!
Put your v... BRAM MESLAND We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our re... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON What you knew in your childhood is true; the Otherworld of magic and enchantment is real, sometimes ... PATRICK HARPUR For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily... AUDRE LORDE Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone ... JOSEPH P. KAUFFMAN Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the "right stuff" to turn o... JAMES WOMACK Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake u... SHAUNA NIEQUIST For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle t... SWAMI SIVANANDA I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding a... NEIL GAIMAN ...Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing. JAMES REDFIELD Are you real?” Stupid. Of course he’s real. “Yes, Julie. I’m not the mystical man from ... CAROLINE GEORGE Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or... LUDWIG FEUERBACH Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l... JUSTINA CHEN In dreams we can recreate love, fear, guilt, happiness. In our minds we can create this superficial ... KATE MILLER In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destini... LES BROWN Dreams permit each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. WILLIAM DEMENT Because they are so emphatically there, and so inconvertibly interior, it is almost inevitable that ... EUGENE H. PETERSON Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream ... STEPHEN LABERGE As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many ... TERRENCE HOWARD Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to ... JOYCE CAROL OATES Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what ... SARAH BAN BREATHNACH I want to be somebody when I grow up. Somebody with grown-up dreams and screams for these dreams to ... NYAMBI NYAMBI Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and e... PHILIP K. DICK Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives. JENNIFER PAHLKA In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifi... LIBBA BRAY Dreams are our goals and hopes which can become our reality. DEBBIE NICHOLSON If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude... YANN MARTEL Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality. MALALA YOUSAFZAI The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the re... WINNIE HOLZMAN I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The ... OPRAH WINFREY Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to wor... JANET JACKSON She made reality out of our once-intangible dreams. ASHLEY MAGNANI The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else's lif... KATHERINE PATTERSON In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see o... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Sometimes we find ourselves distracted from our central goal by other desires. We get overwhelmed by... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life -- people seem to give... KEVIN COSTNER Our inner foundation help us to follow our desired course, making good decisions & choices of oursel... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths, sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpo... BRIAN L. WEISS Often dream creates imageries based on your emotional inclination. ABHIJIT NASKAR There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. Bu... ARTHUR C. CLARKE Dreams are real; dreams exert influence ELAINA J. DAVIDSON We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual ... JON HUNTSMAN, JR. Faith is the poetry of our dreams and action is the builder of our reality. STEVE MARABOLI Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of ima... JULIAN HAWTHORNE I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. ... CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY SELF-IMPOSED SLAVERY:
When we invest our lives doing things that build someone else's dreams, but me... TERENCE T. GORSKI realize what you are not doing and dare to do what you are not doing. What distinctive thing are you... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Dreams free us from normality. Daydreams, especially, take us somewhere between the real world and t... FENNEL HUDSON We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. THOMAS MERTON I realized that we all have the ability to live in worlds of our own doing, to own what happens to u... ANDREW KENDALL Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she stud... JOE HILL What they teach you as history is mythology, and true mythology is far from fantasy - every kind rev... SUZY KASSEM We wake up to be alive and to revive our lives; we don’t wake up to keep sleeping! We wake up not ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and tol... KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiq... JEAN BAUDRILLARD The test of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his c... MALTBIE D. BABCOCK The Internet has the capacity to extend to us genuine choice, and that is not without risk. Real pow... NICK HARKAWAY We live for our unfulfilled dreams when we are alive. Our fulfilled dreams live for us when we are g... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Devour your reality to parent your dreams, in other words, follow your fantasy to concoct your real ... PEX PARKER Licensing our WiFi product to Symbian was an important milestone for us. It provides a real endorsem... HUGH THOMAS We bless and curse ourselves. Some dreams are divine, as well as some waking thoughts. Donne sings o... HENRY DAVID THOREAU In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't wor... ALLY CONDIE During certain periods of our lives, we may listen to a particular song that touches our hearts so m... OSCAR BIMPONG As women, we're generally faced with the challenges of living, including having a family, a career a... GAIL RICHARDS It’s not their (parents’) job to prevent their children from making mistakes, because mistakes a... LUKASZ LANIECKI "To live the life of our choice" may be the dream of many but the real selection and actualisation o... ANUJ SOMANY The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life com... JAMES A. MICHENER I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to g... KEVIN COSTNER ...When a choice will make a real difference in our lives—obvious or not—and when we are living ... DALLIN H. OAKS It takes a true encounter to realise that real animals, wild animals, have all but passed from our l... JOHN BURNSIDE Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only... GORDON B. HINCKLEY We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations... VIJALI HAMILTON We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations... VIJALI HAMILTON When you have a dream that you can't let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember... HARVEY MACKAY Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from... MARTHA BECK From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, sho... ADAM GRANT We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, ... GASTON BACHELARD Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in... LESTER B. PEARSON The best stories come from deep within us and are of us. Either our inner child comes out to play an... JUDITH KOHNEN This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face, and there wi... JOHN CONNOLLY Of course we can dream! Dreams are free ------ Reality is expensive. EMILE JOBITY Our dreams and stories may contain implicit aspects of our lives even without our awareness. In fact... DANIEL J. SIEGEL I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future. RAINER MARIA RILKE If we've got success stories about winning clients and linking global teams, then that's where the r... TRACY BEVERLY But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear ... ERIC WRIGHT
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the Viet Cong are farmers
by day.. guerillas by night.
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PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's go... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I don't know what to do.' PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN That technical stuff is really practice. It's not some magical thing. It's hard work, like an athlet... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN She brought up four kids alone, and for that she deserves congratulations. She took me to my first p... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN You know, I literally lost all control of my bowels up there. I couldn't think. I was swimming in my... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN If you see her, congratulate her. She brought up four kids alone, and she deserves your congratulati... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about. PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and ... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN He would probably be up here right next to me. I would say he would probably be critical because tha... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN We're at the party, mom. Be proud mom, because I'm proud of you. PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I'm overwhelmed, I'm really overwhelmed. PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support ea... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN That's what attracted me to it. I wasn't interested in doing it if it was just going to be about try... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN It was a daunting thing, when they came to my house and offered me the role. I weighed 240 pounds. A... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN It was all that (drugs and alcohol), yeah. It was anything I could get my hands on ... I liked it al... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird. PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Books … they’re kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing. PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or se... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it. PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful ... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Creating something is all about problem-solving. PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real li... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it. Jean-Paul Sartre, Words CAROLE SEYMOUR-JONES I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the par... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at... WILLIAM KEAN SEYMOUR In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know. PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN These crimes were part of a cover-up by the defendants. She did it to protect her own stake in her c... KAREN PATTON SEYMOUR