The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.
I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature.