I’m a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life – people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a ‘reality.’ 695
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. 1.82K
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. 595
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. 614
Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don’t think we can achieve something beyond what we’re qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams? 1.12K
Most new jobs won’t come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We’ve got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality. 590
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. 638
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy. 616
Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself. 2.25K
Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it’s better, and in a lot of ways it’s worse. That’s life, right? 2.53K
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone. 646
When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality. 673
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man’s being, unfolding itself in thought. 1.77K
