An unsanctified person may relish and taste some sweetness in the delicious promises and discoveries of the gospel, by a misapplication of them to himself. But this is like the joy of a beggar, dreaming he is a king; but he awakes and finds himself a beggar still.
—John Flavel
Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.
—Charlie Chaplin
An unsanctified person may relish and taste some sweetness in the delicious promises and discoveries of the gospel, by a misapplication of them to himself. But this is like the joy of a beggar, dreaming he is a king; but he awakes and finds himself a beggar still.
—John Flavel
We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.
—Carl Jung
The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.
—Carl Jung
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
—Carl Jung
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
—Carl Jung
I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
—Vincent Van Gogh
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
—Henry David Thoreau
“Salvation by grace, through faith in Jesus, is no dream, no fiction, let sceptics say what they will.”
This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
—Carl Jung
Everything will be difficult, if there’s no dream.
—Hryhorii Skovoroda
The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.
—Plato
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.
—Charles Dickens
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
—Henry David Thoreau
My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep; that would be a shame, because to sleep is the height of genius.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Socrates: God is perfectly simple; he changes not; he deceives not, either by sign or word, by dream or waking vision.
—Plato
Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.
—Charlie Chaplin
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
—Henry David Thoreau
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
—Carl Jung
What is youth? A dream. What is love? The dream’s content.
—Søren Kierkegaard
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson
Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.
—Marcus Aurelius
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
—William Shakespeare
You have been the last dream of my soul.
—Charles Dickens
When people marvel at Shakespeare or Beethoven, they’re really marveling at their own thoughts and dreams, which the artist has evoked.
—Leo Tolstoy
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
—Plato
Hope is the desire of the soul to be convinced that the dream will come true.