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  • Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem jammed roadways to nowhere.

    Dream   Opportunity   Sky  
    Carolyn Hart (2009). “Death in Lovers' Lane”, p.1, Harper Collins
  • And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

    Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.10, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.

    Dream   Reality   Men  
  • Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. . . . . Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

    Life   Beautiful   Dream  
    "Desiderata" (1927).
  • For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

  • Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

    Love   Running   Dream  
  • With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time...like me!

    Dream   Broken   Video  
  • Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

    Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Curran's speech at The Chancellor's Dinner, Mansion House, www.city.ac.uk. April 23, 2014.
  • I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue - a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren't libelous or otherwise illegal.

    Dream   Thinking   Long  
    Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works: Essays”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
  • The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

  • Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

    FaceBook post by John Updike from Mar 19, 2013
  • There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

    Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.10, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • And we carry onWhen our lives come undoneWe carry onCause there's promise in the morning sunWe carry onAs the dark surrenders to the dawnWe were born to overcomeWe carry onBeyond the picket fences and the oil wellsThe happy endings and the fairy talesIs the reality of shattered lives and broken dreamsWe carry on

    Morning   Dark   Reality  
  • All the disappointments, broken dreams and deep dark experiences will soon be forgotten and blotted out like a bad dream, when that glorious dawn of Heaven arrives!

  • I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

    Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.53, Cambridge University Press
  • We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

    Stars   Believe   Rocks  
    Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books
  • The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

    William Faulkner (2011). “Flags in the Dust: The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, which appeared in a cut version as Sartoris”, p.68, Vintage
  • As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

    "Desiderata" (1927).
  • Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.

    Peace   Silence   Haste  
    Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”
  • Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

    Life   Dream   Clever  
  • Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

    "Dreams" l. 1 (1929)
  • Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries for quality of life, because of things like the weather, obviously, late retirement, poor holiday, poor public services, poor health service; it's basically just a kind of grey, godless wilderness, full of cold pies and broken dreams.

    Funny   Dream   Country  
    "Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind". Documentary, Comedy, 2010.
  • All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

    "A DreamWithin a Dream" l. 10 (1849)
  • Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.

    Dream   Sadness   Mean  
  • They say for every light on Broadway there is a broken heart, an unrealized dream. And that’s the same in any profession. So you have to want it more than anyone else, and you have to be your own champion, be your own superstar, blaze your own path, say yes to opportunity, follow your instincts, be eager, and passionate, keep learning, nurture your real, lasting relationships, don’t be a jerk, and free your imagination so you can become all that you want to be.

  • Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

  • Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

    Napoleon Hill (2016). “Napoleon Hill's Keys to Personal Achievement: An Official Publication of The Napoleon Hill Foundation”, p.88, Sound Wisdom
  • Sometimes we focus on the mess or the broken dream, but in all the mess God sees greatness. He knows how to take your troubles and turn them into trophies, how to take the test and make it your testimony.

  • You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

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