„Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.“

„One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.“

—  Dale Carnegie American writer and lecturer 1888 - 1955

„For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams.“

—  Heidi Klum German model, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and actress 1973

Quoted by New Weekly, ninemsn Australia, 19 April 2009

„Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.“

—  Milan Kundera, book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

„We’re taught in the Jewish tradition the same story over and over, whether it’s the Holocaust or the Maccabees, we have to rise above persecution and do our best, just as the magic is about making people dream, we learned to take things that aren’t supposed to be and turn them into something beautiful.“

—  David Copperfield American illusionist 1956

Jews in the News http://letmypeoplegrow.org/2011/11/jews-news-anton-yelchin-david-copperfield-billy-crystal/

„What about sunrise, what about rain?
What about all the things that you said we were to gain?
What about flowering fields, is there a time?
What about all the dreams that you said was yours and mine?“

—  Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009

HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)

„Way over yonder is a place I have seen
In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.“

—  Carole King Nasa 1942

Way Over Yonder
Song lyrics, Tapestry (1971)

„To dream big doesn't necessarily mean to imagine becoming the biggest movie star in the world. Dreaming big is about taking the simplest thing in life and enjoying it — and seeing it as the biggest thing that can possibly exist.“

—  Salma Hayek Mexican-American actress and producer 1966

O interview (2003)
Context: I want to direct a movie in Mexico, in Spanish. The story is about how when we're really young, our dreams are colorful and big and abstract and interesting and imaginative. As the realities of life hit, our dreams become so common. To dream big doesn't necessarily mean to imagine becoming the biggest movie star in the world. Dreaming big is about taking the simplest thing in life and enjoying it — and seeing it as the biggest thing that can possibly exist. … I work in an industry that is the first to kill this ability because everything is so celebrity oriented. I am part of a cancer. In my world, you have to be so beautiful, so skinny, so rich, so famous — and I don't believe you really have to be any of those things. You simply have to be who you are.

„I dreamed about you baby.
It was just the other night.
Most of you was naked
Ah, but some of you was light.“

—  Leonard Cohen Canadian poet and singer-songwriter 1934 - 2016

„The most remarkable thing about man's dreams is that they all come true; this has always been the case, though no one would care to admit it.“

—  Halldór Laxness Icelandic author 1902 - 1998

Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book Two, Part I: Hard Times

„So what is today's talk about then? It's about my childhood dreams and how I've achieved them“

—  Randy Pausch, book The Last Lecture

I've been very fortunate that way; how I believe I've been able to enable the dreams of others, and to some degree, lessons learned: I'm a professor — there should be some lessons learned — and how you can use the stuff you hear today to enable your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.
The Last Lecture (2007)

„Home really was very small and we had no mod cons and I remember having a dream that the one thing I really wanted was to live in a nice house, you know, a house with more things than we had…We had not got hot water. We only had a cold water tap. We had to heat all the hot water in a copper. There was an outside toilet. So when people tell me about these things, I know about them.“

—  Margaret Thatcher British stateswoman and politician 1925 - 2013

TV Interview for Yorkshire Television Woman to Woman (2 October 1985) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105830
Second term as Prime Minister

„Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.“

—  Lois McMaster Bujold, book Komarr

Source: Komarr

„I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.“

—  Jodi Picoult, book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

„What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.“

—  Fernando Pessoa, book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 145
The Book of Disquiet
Original: O que há de mais reles nos sonhos é que todos os têm.

„Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.“

—  Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

Source: Wide Sargasso Sea

„We want to follow a dream, yes it's true, but it's one thing to follow a dream and another to follow an obsession…A dream is more pure than obsession. A dream is about pride.“

—  José Mourinho Portuguese association football player and manager 1963

Chelsea FC, Doctorate Honoris Causa degree award (23 March 2009)

„A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks:

“Aren’t you tired of waiting?”

“Yes,” answers the rose, “but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.“

—  Paulo Coelho, book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

„Make no mistake; the people of Iran will not risk their lives for a candidate, but rather for the dream of human rights, freedom, democracy and ultimately a better life. Like all great enduring movements, this is about ideas, and for this reason the most profound slogan being chanted is: “We don’t want our votes back! We want our country back!”“

—  Reza Pahlavi Last crown prince of the former Imperial State of Iran 1960

As quoted by Christoph Lehermayr, Der Sohn des Schahs spricht exklusiv mit NEWS.at: "Ich bin bereit, Konig zu werden" http://www.rezapahlavi.org/details_article.php?article=397&page=3, NEWS.at, September 15, 2009.
Interviews, 2009

„You were never one to moon over handsome boys, or talk about balls and parties, or dream about your future husband.”

“That was because of Merripen,” Win admitted. “He was all I ever wanted.“

—  Lisa Kleypas American writer 1964

Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise