Dreams In The Odyssey

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark twain Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them. Homer[->0], The Odyssey Greek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC) We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring…show more content…
~H.F. HedgeDreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask. ~X-FilesAll the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ~Elias CanettiDreams are only thoughts you didn't have time to think about during the day. ~Author UnknownA dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read. ~The TalmudDreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. ~Marsha NormanA dream has power to poison sleep. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Mutability"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ~William DementDreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. ~Edgar CayceI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. ~Rene Descartes, "Meditations on First Philosophy"Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. ~Henri AmielThere's a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams. ~Stoddard King, Jr.Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all

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