Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Dreams Quotes
The word covers two things, the dreams you have asleep and the ones you have about your future, and this page leans towards the first. Shakespeare has by far the most entries, followed by Tennyson, Yeats and Pessoa. If you came for motivational lines about chasing your goals, you will find fewer of those than you might expect.
What you do find is better sourced than most. Dostoyevsky’s The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877) is here, and so is Wittgenstein in Culture and Value (1980): “Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.” The line “When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness” is credited to Tecumseh and is marked disputed.
Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.
Some dreams take a long time in dying. Some get a last minute reprieve…and that can be even worse.
Don’t look for other people to validate your dreams. If it feels right, just go for it.
I incorporated it in 2016, and it has grown beyond my wildest dreams.