Dream
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new 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.
New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.
God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, "If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?" and he answered me with two words: "A pencil". Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.
The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.
We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.
