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"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar".

~ TRINA PAULUS
Author

A bird does not sing because he has an answer, he sings because he has a song.

~ JOAN WALSH ANGLUND
Freelance writer

A boy is truth with dirt on its face
beauty with a cut on its finger
and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

~ UNKNOWN

A dreamer--you know--it's a mind that looks over the edges of thing.

~ MARY O'HARA
American author and screenwriter.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

~ JOHN BARRYMORE
John Sidney Blyth Barrymore (February 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942), was an American actor, frequently called the greatest of his generation. He first gained fame as a stage actor, lauded for his portrayals of Hamlet and Richard III.

A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON
American essayist and poet

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

~ ROBERT ORBEN
Author

A will finds a way.

~ ORISON SWETT MARDEN
American writer associated with the New Thought Movement

Ah, great it is to believe the dream.

~ EDWIN MARKHAM

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.

~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON
American essayist and poet

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

~ WALT DISNEY
Academy Award winning American flim producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, philantropist and co-founder of Walt Disney Company, well known for the cartoon character Mickey Mouse

All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

~ J. R.R. TOLKIEN
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

~ HAVELOCK ELLIS
British sexologist

All you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself.

~ EILEEN CADDY
Spiritual teacher and new-age author, one of the founders of the Findhorn Fourndation

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty, never grows old.

~ FRANZ KAFKA
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was one of the major fiction writers of the 20th century.

Are you a princess? I said and she said I'm much more than a princess but you don't have a name for it yet here on earth.

~ BRIAN ANDREAS
American writer, painter, scultor and publisher

Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.

~ JAMES LEO HERLIHY
American novelist, playwright and actor

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

~ ELLA WILLIAMS
Writer

Children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

~ SARA TEASDALE
American poet

DARE to be remarkable.

~ JANE GENTRY
Founder of "Dare to be Remarkable" program

Do not go where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail...

~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON
American essayist and poet

Do your part to make this world a cuter place to live in.

~ SUSAN BRANCH
Author

Don't Bunt.
Aim out of the ball park.

~ DAVID OGILVY
Notable advertising executive, known as "The Father of Advertising"

Don't compromise yourself, you're all you've got.

~ JANIS JOPLIN
American singer, songwriter, music arranger. Rose to prominence in the late 1960's.

Dream your dreams with OPEN EYES and make them come true.

~ T.E. LAWRENCE
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888[5] – 19 May 1935), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British soldier renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916–18. His vivid writings, along with the extraordinary breadth and variety of his activities and associations, have made him the object of fascination throughout the world as Lawrence of Arabia, a title popularised by the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia based on his life.

Dreams are illustrations...
from the book your soul is writing about you.

~ MARSHA NORMAN
American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play 'night, Mother. She wrote the book and lyrics for such Broadway musicals as The Secret Garden, for which she won a Tony Award, and The Red Shoes, as well as the libretto for the musical The Color Purple

Dreams are necessary to life.

~ ANAIS NIN

Dreams are...illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

Dwell in possibility.

~ EMILY DICKINSON
American poet

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

~ RUTH ANN SCHABACKER
Author

Earth laughs in flowers.

~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON
American essayist and poet

Enjoy freely a vast horizon.

~ KRISHNA
Deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism in a variety of different perspectives.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your whole personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON
American essayist and poet

Everyday is a special day, and day in which to give the very best within you every day you live.

~ GLADYS ADKINS

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin with where they were.

~ RICHARD PAUL EVANS
While working as an advertising executive he wrote a Christmas story for his children. Unable to find a publisher or an agent, he self-published the work in 1993 as a paperback novella entitled The Christmas Box. Now a best seller.

For those who understand, no explanation is needed,
...for those who don't, none will do.

~ JERRY LEWIS

Getting there isn't half the fun, it's all the fun.

~ ROBERT TOWNSEND
Director and Actor

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.

~ HENRY DAVID THOREAU
American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, developement critic, surveryor, historian, philosopher and leading transcendentalist. Best known for the novel WALDEN and his essay CIVIL DISOBEDIANCE.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

~ GARTH BROOKS
American country music artist

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

~ LEONARDO DA VINCI
Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer.

heal the past, live the present dream the future.

~ MARY ENGELBREIT
Mary Engelbreit is a graphic artist and children's book illustrator who launched her own magazine, Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion in 1996.

His laughter...
sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight.

~ JOSEPH LELYVELD

Hitch your wagon to a star.

~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON
American essayist and poet

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

~ EMILY DICKINSON
American poet

How beautiful it is to be alive!

~ HENRY SEPTIMUS SUTTON
Politician

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

~ UNKNOWN

I am here to live out loud.

~ EMILE ZOLA
French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism, an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France.

I am imagination.
I can see what the eyes cannot see.
I can hear what the ears cannot hear.
I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

~ PETER NIVIO ZARLENGA

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

~ LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
American novelist, known best for "Little Women"

I am not afraid...
I was born to do this.

~ JOAN of ARC
National heroine of France and Catholic Saint

I believe in the power of dreams. I can be anything, go anywhere.

~ DES'REE
British vocalist and songwriter

I feel pretty, oh so pretty. It's alarming how charming I feel.

~ STEPHEN SONDHEIM
American composer and lyricist for stage and screen.
Winner of seven Tony Awards (more than any other composer).

I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.

~ ISABELLA BIRD

I have only to take down this or that to flood my soul with memories.

~ DOROTHIE DELVZY

I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream.

~ VINCENT VAN GOGH
Dutch Post-impressionist Artist, with over 900 paintings and 1100 drawings done in a 10 year period.

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.

~ HARRIETT BEECHER STOWE
Author

I said in my heart, "I am sick of four walls and a ceiling. I have need of the sky. I have business with the grass."

~ RICHARD HOVEY
American poet

I still live in and on the sunshine of my childhood.

~ METHOD OF NATURE

I want to be a shooting star! I want to leave a trail of light so bright
that even after people shut their eyes it still burns.

~ STEVE MARTIN

I want to hear jazz with my eyes closed and dig my toes into the sand dancing.

~ SABRINA WARD HARRISON
Canadian artist and author

I was born to be a remarkable woman;
it matters little in what way or how...
I shall be famous or I will die.

~ MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF

I will dare to just do what I do. Be just what I am. And dance whenever I want to.

~ BEVERLY WILLIAMS
Min. Beverly Williams serves the ministry as the Administrative Assistant to the Pastor.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

~ MAYA ANGELOU
Poet, playwright, memoirist, actress, author, television producer and important activist in the American Civil Rights Movement

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

~ THOMAS EDISON
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.

If you can imagine it,
You can achieve it.
If you can dream it,
You can become it.

~ WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD
Author of Fountains of Faith is one of America's most quoted writers of inspirational maxims.

If you hear a different drummer--dreamer, take a chance... The road you choose to travel means the difference in the dance.

~ D. MORGAN

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

~ ROBERT FRITZ
Author of The Path of Least Resistance

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

~ KATHERINE HEPBURN
Acclaimed actress, Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four, from 12 nominations.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

~ LAUREN BACALL
American film stage actress and model

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

~ J. K. ROWLING
Joanne "Jo" Rowling who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author, best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

~ GEORGE ELIOT

It is not given us to live lives of undisrupted calm, boredom, and mediocrity. It is genius to be edge-dwellers.

~ JAY DEACON
writer

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

~ ERMA BOMBECK
Humorist, writer, columnist and journalist

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Keep shining, my bright and shining star.

~ IVY BAKER
American political figure

LEAP and the net will appear.

~ ZEN SAYING

Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on...
the world of beauty around us.

~ MARIANA GRISWOLD VAN RENSSALAER
U.S. critic and writer.

Let's give the historians something to write about.

~ SEXLUS PROPERTIUS
Roman elegiac poet and member of The Circle of Maecenas 50 B.C.-16 B.C.

LIFE is a daring adventure.

~ HELEN KELLER
American author, lecturer, political activist, first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Her story is told dramatically in the play/movie THE MIRACLE WORKER.

Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

~ DANNY kAYE
American award-winning actor, singer and comedian

Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.

~ UNKNOWN

Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.

~ RABINDRANATH TAGORE
1913 Nobel laureate for literature

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI
British Conservative statesman and literary figure

Live in the past, the present & the future!

~ CHARLES DICKENS
Charles John Huffam Dickens, 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner.

Live to the point of tears.

~ Camus
Algerian born French philosopher, author, journalist, and Nobel Prize winner, 1957.

Long live the sun which gives us such color!

~ PAUL CEZANNE
French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.

Make each day your masterpiece.

~ JOHN WOODEN
UCLA Basketball Coach who won 10 NCAA Championships

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun",
We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

~ ZORA NEALE HURSTON
American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

~ OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
American physician, professor, member of FIRESIDE POETS, one of the best regarded poets of the 19th century

May you discover your own special abilities and contribute them toward a better world.

~ CHARLENE COSTANZO
Writer

May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart!

~ ESKIMO PROVERB

May you live all the days of your life.

~ JONATHAN SWIFT
Irish author and journalist

May you never lose your sense of wonder.

~ LEEANN WOMACK
American country music singer and songwriter, who is best-known for her old fashioned-styled country music songs that often discuss subjects such as cheating and lost love.

Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.

~ PIERCE HARRIS

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

~ THE WONDER YEARS

My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.

~ DIANE ARBUS
American photographer noted for taking pictures of people on the fringe of society.

My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.

~ WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge,helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads.

Never bend your head!
Always hold it high!
Look the world straight in the face!

~ HELEN KELLER
American author, lecturer, political activist, first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Her story is told dramatically in the play/movie THE MIRACLE WORKER.

Never, never, never give up.

~ WINSTON CHURCHILL
British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II.

Nobody knows what a boys is worth, and the world must wait and see;
for every man in an honored place, is a boy that used to be.

~ PHILLIPS BROOKS
American clergyman and author

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