Quotes: Gertraude Beese

"A life without dreams is like a garden without flowers." 

–– Gertraude Beese 

via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001.

Quotes: Matt Haig

"Reading isn't important because it helps you get a job. It's important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you're given. Reading makes the world better. It is how humans merge. How minds connect. Dreams. Empathy. Understanding. Escape. Reading is love in action."

–– Matt Haig (b. 1975), English author and journalist 

Source: Art Propelled December 18, 2018.

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 g, 2019, p. 2. 

Quotes: Eleanor Roosevelt

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." 

–– Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), American author, activist, diplomat, political figure, and First Lady. 

via: Sketchbook 28, 2015, p. 42.

Quotes: Rob Breszny

"Even when you know exactly what you want, it's sometimes crucial for you not to accomplish it too fast. It may be that you need to mature more before you're ready to handle your success. It could be that if you got all of your heart's desire too quickly and easily, you wouldn't develop the vigorous willpower that the quest was meant to help you forge. The importance of good timing can't be underestimated either: In order for you to take full advantage of your dream-come-true, many other factors in your life have to be in place and arranged just so." 

–– Rob Breszny, American astrologer, writer, and musician 

Source: Rob Breszney. Free Will Astrology, Virgo January 10, 2013. View Magazine. January 10-16, 2013, p. 25. 

via: Sketchbook 20, 2013, p. 92.

Women's quotes: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

"If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough."  

–– Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (b. 1938), Liberian politician and Africa's first female president 

Quotes 275: Henry David Thoreau

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, one will meet with success unexpected in common hours." 

–– Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American essayist, philosopher, and poet 

via Sketchbook 4, 2008, p. 110 

Quotes 180: Virginia Woolf

"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth comes to the top." 

–– Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), English writer, critic, & publisher

via Commonplace Book 2006, p. 106.