The longing for something beyond yourself beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of

Ah but dreams cannot be captured with promises he said. Like water they elude our grasp. But water is the staff of life. I believe your dream will come true if only because you will not compromise on it and let it go too lightly.

Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams But life was made up of a succession of dreams some few to be realized most to be set aside as time went on one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream perhaps that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad embittered persons who never moved on from the first of lifes great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.