Dream Quote - Rumi

“I choose to love you in silence
For in silence I find no rejection.
I choose to love you in loneliness
For in loneliness no one owns you but me.
I choose to adore you from a distance
For distance will shield me from pain.
I choose to kiss you in the wind
For the wind is gentler than my lips.
I choose to hold you in my dreams
For in my dreams, you have no end…”
~ Rumi

Dream Quote - Kalidasa

“Look to this day
For it is life.
The very life of life
In its brief course lie all
The realities and verities of existence –
The bliss of growth,
The splendor of action,
The glory of power –

For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well-lived
Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore, to this day.”
~ Sanskrit proverb by Kalidasa, Indian poet

Dream Quote - Rudyard Kipling

“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!”

~ Rudyard Kipling
(‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)

Dream Quote - E.J.Dempsey

"In dreams—I wield the lightning’s flash. And whip the wearying planet’s pace. In deed—I tremble at the dash."
~ E. J. Dempsey