Following Your Dreams Quotes

“I kissed him hard. The few people in the bar must have been thinking that all they were seeing was just a kiss. They didn't know that this kiss stood for my whole life - and his life, as well. The life of anyone who has waited, dreamed, and searched for their true path.

The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“You know,” he continued reflectively, “there is something very satisfying about making something, creating it, modelling it on your dream and making that dream become a reality. Yes, we all have dreams. That's the easy bit. It's making them come real that's not so easy.”
― Leslie W.P. Garland, The Golden Tup

“You can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”
― Jim Carrey

“♪♫ no one’s gonna play this on the radio ♫♪ Billy Joel

So why’s he wasting his time? Because he loves the music, that’s why. And he’s not wasting his time is he? He’s following his dream, doing what he loves. Perhaps if more of us followed our dreams – really followed our own dreams, not someone else’s nutty ideology - the world might be a nicer place to reside in.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that's difficult to do when we're used to living in a different way.

Finally we discover, to our surprise, that God wants us to be happy, because He is the Father.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try to make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've got to dream a garden.”
― Bess Streeter Aldrich, Lantern in Her Hand

“Following someone's dream helps us to fulfill our dreams.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The scariest haunting comes from a murdered dream.”
― Jorge P. Guerrero

“The challenge of life is to change the circumstances of our birth into more personal and enjoyable ones and thenceforth to proceed into contented waning.”
― Stewart Stafford

“It did not occur to me at that time to ask God to reveal his vision for my life. On my own, following my head rather than my heart, I chose the safe path.”
― Janice Elsheimer, The Creative Call: An Artist's Response to the Way of the Spirit

“Perhaps the most important thing in this life unamazing
Is that you dance to a different song than the current one that’s playing.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“People don’t know what to do when they encounter someone different. History hides a whole world of talented people we have never known because bright minds surrendered to the advice of small thinkers. “You got a great voice, kid—now go check on the cattle and don’t forget to lock the entrance.” And you spent so much time trying to convince everyone to appreciate some small idea or gift. They won’t know. They will never understand ideas until they happen. They don’t believe in start-ups, but love success stories. They won’t encourage your singing career, but love the radio. We ought to fly away from everyone and everything and right when we’ve launched far enough in space to risk no return, we can then come back to earth as us.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“We must do because we are here. The universe is a playspace for you to find out cool shit and discover cool people. It’s the purest notion in our hearts, but also the most fragile. Do not lose to cul-de-sacs. Or a small person who says no. Or a large society that points one way. Do not lose to humidity. Or mud. Or boring white walls that say you’re nothing. Don’t fall for the room. It’s not there. Our dreams will never be around us, which is why we have to do the awkward thing of chasing them. It’s bigger than a day job, or even a romance. To be caught up on planetary affairs is to let the wind blow away your existence. You must throw a fishing line at a cloud and climb up the cord. Stay above the soil stompers. They won’t value you, so look away. Planted in you is a self in which the world will fail to see, in which you must make your mission to protect.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“The only value that truly matters is the one you give yourself. - The Mother of All Values”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Awakening

“Ah, Letty,’ he said, bowing his head. ‘You were never lost. You were only following your dream.”
― J A Croome, The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories