“We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.”
Mikheil Saakashvili (1967) Georgian-Ukrainian politician, President of Georgia and Governor of Odessa
Source: As quoted in "Selling the Georgian Dream" http://old.themoscowtimes.com/sitemap/free/2012/11/article/selling-the-georgian-dream/471822.html (23 November 2012), by Luka Oreskovic, The Moscow Times
“Oh, must we dream our dreams
and have them, too?”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) American poet
Source: Questions of Travel
“We should train our desires to show the way to our dreams.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 103
Revilo P. Oliver (1908–1994) American philologist
"What We Owe Our Parasites", speech (June 1968); Free Speech magazine (October and November 1995)
1960s
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke (1960)
Rilke's Letters
Context: What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.
“You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.”
Hermann Hesse book Demian
Source: Demian (1919), p. 94
Context: You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy. But there is no dream that lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular one.
“Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.”
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
1990s, Our March to Freedom is Irreversible (1990)
Context: Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony.
