Nothing happens unless first a dream.  --Carl Sandburg            

    Reflections on Dreams

Quotations on Dreams                        

                                                                                                                
The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.   --  Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing happens unless first a dream.  --Carl Sandburg

Some dream worthy accomplishments; other stay awake and do them.

If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.  Yiddish proverb

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep,
for every dream precedes the goal.  --Ralph Vaull Starr

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-
winged bird, that cannot fly. -- Langston Hughes

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will
remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible. --
Robert Schuller

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have 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
                               
It may be those  who do most, dream most. Stephen Ecock

Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them.--Phantom F. Harlock

Reach high, for stars hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for  every dream precedes the goal. Pamela Star

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die
today. -- James Dean

A person with big dreams is more powerful than a person
with all the facts. -- Dayle Maloney

When you cease to dream you cease to live. -- Malcolm S.
Forbes

All successful men and women are big dreamers. They
imagine what their future could be, ideal in every
respect, and then they work every day toward their distant
vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy
 

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope their dreams will come true.- Woodrow Wilson

Dreams expand our universe. Dreams are the heart.
Goals focus on performance. Goals are on spreadsheets. Phil Humbert

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. 
They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every
respect, and then they work every day toward their distant
vision, that goal or purpose. -- Brian Tracy

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his
heart, will one day realize it.  Dream lofty dreams and as
you dream so shall you become... -- James Allen


Nothing happens unless first a dream.  --Carl Sandburg

A dream without a goal is just a wish. Bill Cole

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have
conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. -- Dr. Jonas
Salk

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there
are some who face reality; and then there are those who
turn one into the other. -- Douglaus Everett

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness
has genius, power and magic in it. --Goethe

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream
things that never were and ask why not. -- George Bernard Shaw
       

It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. 
Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. 
Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible.   --  Thomas Robert Gaines

Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff
of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we
maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful
life. - Leo Buscaglia
   

A person with big dreams is more powerful than a person
with all the facts. - Dayle Maloney

Dreams become a reality when they are transformed into goals with a deadline. L. Walkup


 

It may be that those who do most, dream most.
-- Stephen Leacock

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also
dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of  
yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.  
--Robert H. Goddard
 

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,
life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
--Langston Hughes

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Reflections on Dreams                             

Pay attention to your dreams as they mare a key to your heart's deepest longings.  Consider transforming your dreams into a reality by transforming them into long-range goals and short-range goals with deadlines.

Take Ten

What stands between us and a dream is often something as simple as a ten-minute-a-day exercise.  For example,
a brisk  ten minute walk for cardio vascular health
 a 10-minute weight exercise for transforming flab into muscles
    a 10-minute review of class notes to master memorization
        a 10-minute-a-day regime for cleaning out clutter
           a 10-minute an evening reading/meditation session to make sense out of the day
                a 10-minute a day reading program to read those items  that have been piling up

Stephen Covey invites his readers to ask themselves the following question: What one simple action, if done repeatedly, 5 days a week, would significantly improve the quality of your life?

I invite you to seriously ponder this question.
Is there a connection between your answer and your dreams
Might your answer be a short stepping stone to your dreams

Recall that the basic difference between a stepping stone and a stumbling block is what YOU decide to do with that stone that you run against in your journey of life.

Can you think of a time when you transformed a stumbling block into a stepping stone?

Read and reflect upon the quotations below. Enjoy!!!
Write a paragraph about a quote or two that you really like.
Finally write a commitment statement: What do you commit yourself to doing today that will improve the quality 
       of   your life?