Enough! It's time to grow up. If we want to play adult games--living our Dream--we must play by adult rules. One of the primary adult rules: We are individually responsible for our own lives.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts) 

Even if you can't just snap your fingers and make a dream come true, you can travel in the direction of your dream, every single day and you can shorten the distance between the two of you.--Douglas Pagels 

Every dreamer works in violent disagreement with their times.--Conway Stone 

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.--Harriet Tubman 

The excitement, the true excitement, was always in starting again. Nothing's worse than an accomplished task, a realized dream.--Marilyn Harris 

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.--Louisa May Alcott

Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become.--Anonymous 

For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.--Lois Wyse (Far From Innocence) 

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.--Leonard da Vinci 

The frontiers of our dreams always converge with reality.--Gerd De Ley 

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

Great things are done by people who think great thoughts and then go out into the world to make their dreams come true.--Ernest Holmes

Experience has convinced me that there is a thousand times more goodness, wisdom, and love in the world than men imagine.--Gehles 

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.--Aldous Huxley (Reader's Digest, March 1956) 

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.--Oscar Wilde 

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.--Oscar Wilde 

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.--Franklin P. Jones 

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.--Elbert Hubbard 

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.--Katherine Anne Porter ("St. Augustine and the Bullfight" The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter) 

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.--Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture) 

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.--Dan Stanford 

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself--in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.--Elizabeth Bowen (The Death of the Heart) 

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.--Immanuel Kant 

Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.--Konrad Adenauer 

Good judgment is usually the result of experience. And experience is frequently the result of bad judgment. But to learn from the experience of others requires those who have the experience to share the knowledge with those who follow.--Barry LePatner (To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design) 

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.--Joseph Campbell 

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.--Patrick Henry 

I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.--Ann Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea) 

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires.--Abigail Van Buren

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.--Henry Ford