A collection of quotes to inspire you to always let your mind wander. Dream on.
Man is a genius when he is dreaming. Akira Kurosawa
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind. Mick Jagger
A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities. J.R.R. Tolkien
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed. Neil Gaiman
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Harriet Tubman
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. Goethe
You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one. John Lennon
There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.William S. Burroughs
Life holds special magic for those who dare to dream. Unknown
All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. T.E. Lawrence
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. Richard Bach
Dreams don’t work unless you do. Unknown
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. Albert Einstein
Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams. Salvador Dali
Not to dream boldly may turn out to be simply irresponsible. George Leonard
When you cease to dream you cease to live. Malcolm S. Forbes
Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them. Unknown
Do not be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. Belva Davis
I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists. Unknown
Dream as if you’ll live forever… live as if you’ll die today. James Dean
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. Earl Nightingale
Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. Oscar Wilde
If you don’t build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs. Tony Gaskins
On every street in every city, there’s a nobody who dreams of being a somebody. Robert De Niro
No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first. Laura Ingalls Wilder
If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough. Unknown
People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes. Neil Gaiman
Dreams are real while they last — can we say more of life? Havelock Ellis
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. Anaïs Nin
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W.B. Yeats
A dream is an answer to a question we haven’t yet learned how to ask. Fox Mulder
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. Napoleon Hill
Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it. George Lucas
Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don’t listen to anyone who doesn’t know how to dream. Liza Minnelli
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. Marcel Proust
The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened. James Arthur Baldwin
It is precisely the possibility of realizing a dream that makes life interesting. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner. Michael Caine
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. Orison Swett Marden
For a dreamer, night’s the only time of day. Newsies
No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big. Unknown
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. John Updike
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. John Lennon
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. Eugene Ionesco
The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time. Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest. Marilyn Monroe
Keep true to the dreams of your youth. Friedrich Schiller
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. Henry David Thoreau
All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe
When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old. Bill Clinton
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Sigmund Freud
I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living. Steven Spielberg
Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream. Antoine de St-Exupéry
Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears. Richard Wilkins
I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we’ve made of them…The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey. David Bowie
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art. Miguel Ruiz
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had. Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. Unknown
Bonus Poem…
I’ll take the dream I had last night,
And put it in my freezer,
So someday long and far away,
When I’m an old grey greezer,
I’ll take it out and thaw it out,
This lovely dream I’ve frozen,
And boil it up and sit me down
And dip my old cold toes in. Shel Silverstein, Frozen Dream
