Dream Reality Quotes

Even in my dreams, I'm an idiot who knows he's about to wake up to reality. ~ Tom Cruise

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it. ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz

You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced. ~ Graham Greene

Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality. ~ Alexa Hampton

Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality. ~ Faina Ranevskaya

Dreams are never just dreams, they are reality waiting to happen. ~ Sarah Burton

No," says Ariana. "It was a dream. Reality got in the way, that's all. ~ Neal Shusterman

We don't recount our dreams; we construct them with the materials of reality. We aren't looking for God, psychic truth or authenticity, but for esthetic effect. That's why I baptized our movement Structural, or Esthetic, Onirism. Dreams and music were our models. ~ Dumitru Tepeneag

Sometimes having the dream makes you more content than having the reality. ~ Lorraine Heath

Have you heard that someone's dreams could be another's reality? ~ Ed Roland

It's hard to tell that the world we live in is either a reality or a dream. ~ Kim Ki-duk

Dreams are reality at its most profound. ~ Eugene Ionesco

Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

The fall from your dream into reality is especially hard when you've seen that you can fly. ~ Stephen Tobolowsky

You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality. ~ Wallace D. Wattles

Reality is greater than our dreams. ~ Frederick Sommer

The dream you are living is your creation. It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
You have the power to create hell, and you have the power to create heaven.
Why not dream a different dream? Why not use your mind, your imagination, and your emotions to dream heaven? ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz

You may dream about turning it around as quickly as we did, but you wouldn't expect it to become reality, ... But we jelled quickly and got it done. We're a whole new defense compared to last year. ~ London Fletcher

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. ~ John Keats

Not to dream more boldly may turn out to be, in view of present realities, simply irresponsible. ~ George Leonard

May the dreams of your previous be the reality of your potential. ~ Harriet Morgan

Your dream will not become a reality until you shift from Very Important to an Emergency! ~ Eric Thomas

Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality. ~ Paulo Coelho

The dreams are the skeleton of all reality. ~ James Salter

I had dreams, but always told myself, 'Nah, that would never happen.' For a poor Latina, (acting) wasn't a reality. ~ Diane Guerrero

If you read Calvin, for example, he says, How do we know that we are godlike, in the image of God? Well, look at how brilliant we are. Look how we can solve problems even dreaming, which I think is true, which I've done myself. So instead of having an externalized model of reality with an objective structure, it has a model of reality that is basically continuously renegotiated in human perception. I think that view of things is pretty pervasively influential in Protestant thought. ~ Marilynne Robinson

Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality. ~ Myles Munroe

At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities. ~ Clarence H. Burns

I'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms. ~ Ryan McGinley

We have weathered the worst storms and the safety of the shore, though distant, is in sight. We can look to the future with robust confidence provided we do not relax and fritter away our energies in internal dissensions. There never was greater need for discipline and unity in our ranks. It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into reality. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams. ~ Robert Breault

Mary Kay was the wholesome personification of the American dream. For women everywhere, she brought the impossible dream to life by making it a reality. She was a very wise lady. She was a people person. She was very sensitive to the importance of recognizing people. ~ Zig Ziglar

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream. ~ Frances Farmer

Dreams come to those who dare dream and wake up to make them a reality. ~ Jinxx

It's like a dream, but who cares? I want a dream. Right this minute, that's exactly what I want. Because reality has been pretty fucking crap for a while now. ~ S.K. Tremayne

Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness. ~ Deborah Norville

The lucid dream, located as it is at a crossroads between worlds and states of consciousness, places the magician in a unique position to influence the delicate balance of consciousness and the interplay it has on matter in the waking state, and is thus an opportunity to test one's ability in the art of adjusting the mutable fabric of Maya. ~ Zeena Schreck

I believe in the power that not only allows the sun to rise but turns seeds into flowers and dreams into realities. ~ Oprah Winfrey

When I was very, very young - four, five, six - I could see inside people, their motives, their dreams, their apprehension of reality. ~ Frederick Lenz

Every rep I did on chin-ups, on squats with 500 pounds, I never said, to myself, 'Oh, my God, another rep.' I said, 'Yes, another rep, because that will make my dream turn into a reality.' ~ Sylvester Stallone

In many ways we are a dream for people, not a reality. That counts in your mind. It shows how much you can touch people, and as much as you can try to give those people somehow it is nothing compared to what they live in their own mind, in their dreams, for you. ~ Ayrton Senna

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream! ~ Milan Kundera

We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality. ~ Vaclav Havel

A mine-free world does not need to be a dream - together, we can make it a reality. ~ Heather Mills

Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand
And straight reality is always cold ~ Van Morrison

But remember this, Japanese boy ... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality. ~ Hayao Miyazaki

Most people sabotage themselves because they aren't mindful in the moment. Let your daily actions be governed by your goals & dreams. Whenever you are making an important decision first ask if it gets you closer to your goals or farther away. If the answer is closer, pull the trigger. If it's farther away make a different choice. Conscious choice making is a critical step in making your dreams a reality. ~ Jillian Michaels

The frontiers of our dreams always converge with reality. ~ Gerd De Ley

Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt to allow the perpetrators to reenact what they did, and then something truly amazing happens. The dream dissolves into nightmare and then into bitter reality. An amazing and impressive film. ~ Errol Morris

In my life there were times when dreams have nothing to do with reality, but obviously they were prophetic dreams. And I know that if we look closely and listen carefully, we can see the supernatural signs that determine our future. We all meet with various everyday difficulties and overcoming them, we grow and develop. ~ Russell Crowe

There's only one thing more beautiful than a beautiful dream, and that's a beautiful reality. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality. ~ Ronald Reagan

An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something. ~ Ayn Rand

The dream of coming back is becoming a reality. A lot of the uncertainty about the future has been cleared up. A lot of people are no longer cursing the darkness and have started lighting candles and doing positive things. ~ Paul Tagliabue

Reality, as you currently experience it, is something like a waking dream. It is disguising deeper and more intensified levels of being and knowing. For those who are ready and willing, the doors to those other levels now stand open. ~ Daniel Pinchbeck

The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality. ~ Robert Fulton

Strange as it may sound, it is more difficult to maintain a faith walk when we begin to see our dreams come true. When hopes become realities it is easy to shift our faith onto the thing we have dreamed of and off of the One who was the source of our provision. ~ Andy Stanley

I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it. ~ Gustave Moreau

There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows is very much a part of the Indian experience. ~ Joseph Boyden

The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream, the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion. ~ Andre Breton

I'm all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality. ~ Matthea Harvey

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality. ~ Winston Churchill

I know how long I need to be working to make my dreams become a reality. ~ Eric Thomas

We do not have it out there as a distant dream. This could actually be reality. ~ Maggie Dixon

And when you realize that you form the events of your life in the same way, you will learn to take hold of your entire consciousness in whatever aspect it shows itself in this life. Through all of this you must realize that you are not powerless. Remember, also, that this life is a dimension of experience and reality even if it is, in contrast, a dream in a higher level of reality in which you have your larger consciousness. ~ Seth

Thus my faith grew that my beautiful dream for the future would become reality after all, even though this might require long years. ~ Adolf Hitler

Take thoughts and turn them into actions, turn them into results, turn your dreams into reality. That's really the science of achievement. ~ Tony Robbins

Before I die, I want to help as many people as I can make their dreams become a reality. ~ Eric Thomas

When A R Rahman won the Oscars, I had a dream of being able to congratulate him in person. This dream is now a reality thanks to Airtel digital TV. This day will forever remain truly unforgettable. ~ Mohammed Rafi

Most people seem to be interested in turning their dreams into reality. Then there are those who turn reality into dreams. I belong to the latter group. ~ Allen Say

It is not enough to say that something good, something beautiful is being born. We must help it become a reality - not a dream. ~ Ella Reeve Bloor

The first step to making a dream come true is to wake up ~ Eliel-Pierre

I try to transform a dream's magic into reality. ~ Alberta Ferretti

When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality . ~ R.A. Lafferty

The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life because that is the only reality; all else being the play of thought. But it might as well be our greatest folly because that which exists only a moment and vanishes as a dream can never be worth a serious effort. ~ Irvin D. Yalom

Reality and fantasy, we need both of those to survive. If we don't have fantasy, dreams and all of those things, what's the point of carrying on? And you need to watch out for reality because buses come. ~ Terry Gilliam

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. ~ Edith Sitwell

I could never really manage to tell reality and my dream world apart, for the two of them co-existed together as they slid over top of each other. ~ Shvaugn Craig

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright. ~ Tony Robbins

Dreamers only dream, but creators bring their dreams into reality. ~ Robert Fritz

Marketers keep inventing desires, necessities for you and for me. I need this. I need that. I need. I need. It's the need of a smoking fit. If you don't smoke that cigarette now, you'll die-when in reality you die because you succumb to the rage and rattle of the needy greed that keeps you busy needing more and more things. Is this the American Dream-the greedy need? ~ Giannina Braschi

Any girl from any walk of life dreams of that special dress, and I try to make that dream a reality for her. ~ Oscar De La Renta

In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us a reality, the medicine that cures our souls. ~ Arthur Middleton

If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going. ~ Michael Shurtleff

Perhaps one day the dreams of Utopists may be realized and humanity will shake off the chains of materialism which still separate us from what we think to be supernatural knowledge, but which, in reality, is already in us, only waiting to be discerned. ~ Emile Coue

Is a dream reality till you wake up? ~ Emma Bunton

The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities. ~ Robert Southey

Compared to dreams, reality can be truly cruel. But it can also come up with beautiful surprises. ~ Nujood Ali

Look, I'm an immigrant, so I know what it is like to dream about coming to America and then to get here and be able to make your dreams a reality, ... Of course, there are millions of people who want to come here. Let's help them, let's find a legal way t ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

None of it is real, though, because reality lies in a different, more evanescent realm. These are only the names of some of the places in the archipelago of dreams. The true reality is the one you perceive around you, or that which you are fortunate enough to imagine for yourself. ~ Christopher Priest

To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality. ~ Starhawk

When you decide to go after a new dream, you need to give less to your current reality and more to your desired reality ... Take your energy out of what you don't want to be doing anymore so you can put it in what you really want to be doing. ~ Danielle LaPorte

Dream takes you to skies and reality just to the bed. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals. ~ Denis Waitley

If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams? ~ Yann Martel

We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream. ~ Anais Nin

The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream. ~ Slavoj Zizek

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality. ~ Leon Joseph Suenens