Tove Jansson Quotes

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the most important formula is courage plus dreams equals success.

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

Imagination - that's the future for us.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me.

Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit.

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

Neither wisdom nor good will is now dominant. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high.

Aren't we all dreamers? It's only because man dreamt of flying that we are travelling in planes. Behind all inventions, we see the dreams of people.

I am a man who dreams of culture.

Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things were different.

The dream is not a drug but a way. Listen to where it can take you.