When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.

— Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things

“There are so many fragile things, after all. 

People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”

Intimacy

“Intimacy is not who you let touch your genitalia. Intimacy is who you text at 3am about your dreams and fears. Intimacy is giving someone your attention, when ten other people are asking for it. Intimacy is the person always in the back of your mind, no matter how distracted you are.”

— Benny Bellamacina

“If you wake up tired, you’ve been chasing dreams. If you go to bed tired, your making your dreams happen.”

— Sylvia Plath

“I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn’t stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren’t having any of those.”

Being with him

“Being with him made me want to make my own dreams, discover my own path. I was my best self when I was with him.”

You’ve got to follow your passion.

You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love—who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams

Reservoir of strength

Many of your greatest blessings can stay buried for years under layers of comfort and complacency. Often, you realize the full value of those blessings only when difficulties come along.

Life’s most serious challenges do not arrive so as to punish you. Rather, they serve to shine a light on what is truly meaningful and valuable.

You have strengths and skills that you may never know about until a crisis compels you to uncover them and put them to use. In times of great difficulty, you are forced to call upon a reservoir of strength you may have never before known you had.

When life throws great challenges at you, that’s not the time to give up on the values and dreams that mean the most to you. In fact, that’s the ideal time to reconnect with the very best that is within you.

Within your most treasured values you will find your greatest motivation, inspiration, creativity, effectiveness and strength. With each challenge, you have a new opportunity to discover new dimensions of your skills and strengths.

When the difficulties arise, be true to the authentic dreams and values you hold dear. Tap into your reservoir of strength, and rise above each challenge to a higher level of true fulfillment.

— Ralph Marston

Don’t be so hard on yourself

Don’t be so hard on yourself
this will lead to difficult times.
Learn to forgive yourself and
forgive those who gave you hard times.
Learn to see the bright side of the darkness.
Learn to accept the darkness in the light.
It will make you stronger and it will show you
patience. Patience will lead you to your dreams.

— william chapman

“The harder I try, to get you out of my mind. The more you appear in my dreams.”

Beyoncé says:

"I was very aware of the fact that I was showing my body. I was 195 pounds when I gave birth. I lost 65 pounds. I worked crazily to get my body back. I wanted to show that you can have a child and you can work hard and you can have your body back… You could have your child and you can still have fun and still be sexy and still have dreams and still live for yourself. I don’t have any shame about being sexual. I’m not embarrassed about it and I don’t feel like I have to protect that side of me."

love means letting go.

One day, you’ll feel empty

One day, you’ll feel empty while pursuing your goals or your dreams. On those days, just remember the warmth of the people who encouraged you and believed in you. Surely, you’ll be able to keep pushing forward no matter what.

— Paulo Coelho

“You don’t have to explain your dreams, they belong to you.”

— Nora Roberts

“If you don’t go after what you want, 

you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, 

the answer is always no.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?”

— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“It feels good to think about you when I’m warm in bed. I feel as if you’re curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.”

— Quote from This Book is Not for Sale by Jarod Kintz.

“I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I’m too tired to be me.”

It's strange how dreams get under your skin

It's strange 

how dreams 

get under your skin 

and give your heart 

a test for 

whats real 

and 

whats imaginary

Stop focusing on someone to lay down with,

Stop focusing on someone to lay down with, 

and focus on someone who will share some 

of the same dreams as you.