My father passed away Sunday September 24th, 2000, this is a poem I wrote many years ago - the idea for the poem arose from my thoughts and feelings on his life at that time.

DREAMS
The old man cried for dreams he'd lost 
"My son" he said "You don't know the cost..
The dreams I had and all let go
Whether it were friend or foe
I did for others, and not for me
Fought  a war, rasied a family
Loved a woman and   sired  a son
But when at last its said and done
I never cared for number one .."

Perhaps it is because of my father that I have always believed so strongly in following your dreams, and following your heart -- perhaps the dreams wont always come true and perhaps your heart will sometimes be broken but to me nothing could be worse than dying with regrets at dreams not followed or a life not fully lived.

In the words of Alfred Tennyson

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they are
Tears from the depth of some divine dispair
Rise in the heart and gather to the eyes
In looking on the happy auntumn fields
And thinking of the days that are no more.

I have put together a small collection of quotes on dreams that I hope you will find to be both interesting and inspirational.

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You are never given a dream without also being given the power so makte it true. You may have to work for it however.
~Richard Bach~

A man is not old until regret takes the place of dreams.
~John Barrymore~

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you wont come up with a headful of mud either.
~Leo Burdon~

The moment of enlightenment is when a person dreams of possibilties become images of probabilities
~Vic Braden~

People live boring lives but no one ever has a boring dream
~Earth Angel@ Inner Reflections~

Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beath them mercilessly into submission.
~Neil Kendall~

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness
~Zadoc Rabinowitz~

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
~Johann Friedirch Von Schiller~

If you build castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them.
~Henry David Thoreau~

A dreams is your creative vision for the future.
~Dennis Waitley~

"My prayer for you is a dream
big enough to capture your heart,
bright enough to illuminate your mind
and deep enough to satisfy your spirit
May you find the strength to pursue it
and be enriched by it across the years."
-- Unknown-

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."
~ J.M. Power~

"I dreamed a thousand new paths... I woke and walked my old one."
~ Chinese Proverb-~

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow."
~ James Dean- ~

Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become."
~Unknown ~

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
~Edgar Allen Poe ~

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
~Eleanor Roosevelt ~

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success -- the earliest spark in the dreaming youth -- if this; dream a great dream.
~ John A. Appleman ~

I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.
~ Tony Arata ~

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
~ Neil Armstrong ~

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.
~ Eric Burdon ~

There are some people who live in a dream world,
and there are some who face reality;
and then there are those who turn one into the other."
~ Douglas Everett ~

To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.
~ Bernard Edmonds ~

When we can't dream any longer, we die.
~ Goldman Emma ~

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~

If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
~ Oscar Hammerstein ~

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
~ Francis Herbert Hedge ~

All men of action are dreamers.
~ James G. Huneker ~

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
~ Kerouac Jack ~

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
~ Jesse Jackson ~

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.
~ Henry J. Kaiser ~

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.
~ Herbert Kaufman ~

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
~ Robert F. Kennedy ~

Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.
~ Sister Corita Kent ~

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: -- we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
~ Martin Luther King Jr. ~

Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream --a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows --is essentially poetry.
~ Michel Leiris ~

One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~

Everything starts as somebody's day dream.
~ Larry Niven ~

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
~ Marcel Proust ~

Know thyself, believe in God, and dare to dream.
~ John Salley ~

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
~ Carl Sandburg ~

Dreams show you that you have the power...
~ Helen Schucman ~

Aim for your star, no matter how far, you must reach high above and touch your life with love, you must never look back, but charge on! Attack! See your goal your star of desire, see it red hot, feel it burning, you must be obsessed with it to make it your true yearning, be ready my friends for when you truly believe it, you will certainly achieve it and by all of God’s universal laws you will always receive it!
~ Bob Smith ~

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
~ Dale Turner ~

Like dreams, small creeks grow into mighty rivers.
~ Source Unknown ~

When you dream alone, with your eyes shut, asleep, that dream is an illusion. But when we dream together, sharing the same dream, awake and with our eyes wide open, then that dream becomes reality!
~ Source Unknown ~

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

Dream big and dare to fail.
~ Norman D. Vaughan ~

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
~ Denis Waitley ~

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
~Langston Hughes ~

All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.
~Edgar Allan Poe~



Our dreams keep us young,   and comfort us in time of crisis, dreams give us the strength to carry on, Dreams are what make us believe tomorrow will be better. Take away our dreams and  we die,  ... give someone the power to control your dreams and you lose your soul.

He who shares my dreams also shares my heart. When two people have the same dream all things are possible.  

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