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Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don't think you have to wait for the latter to do the former.
— Hal Elrod
Fairy tales can come true It can happen to you If you're young at heart
— Frank Sinatra
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
— Henry David Thoreau
This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
— Henry David Thoreau
I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
— Henry David Thoreau
Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the Sun goes down. He appears to migrate westward daily and tempt us to follow him. He is the Great Western Pioneer whom the nations follow. We dream all night of those mountain ridges in the horizon, though they may be of vapor only, which were last gilded by his rays.
— Henry David Thoreau
The stars are God's dreams, thoughts remembered in the silence of his night.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not to be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
— Henry David Thoreau
Out of the bottomless profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the highest heaven. So in dreams, have I seen majestic Satan thrusting forth his tormented colossal claw from the flame Baltic of Hell. But in gazing at such scenes, it is all in all what mood you are in; if in the Dantean, the devils will occur to you; if in that of Isaiah, the archangels.
— Herman Melville
In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.
— Herman Melville
Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.
— Joel Osteen