I went my whole life without winning anything and now all of a sudden after years of hard work my dreams were coming true all at once and I didn’t know how to deal with it. It felt like the world was changing its relationship with me but I had stayed the same.

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But when you can’t sleep at night, how can you dream? ― Kamala Harris

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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. _ Walter Scott

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Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself. — William Faulkner

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Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

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You must have dreams and goals if you are ever going to achieve anything in this world.

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There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

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The triumph can't be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.

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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. — Florence Nightingale

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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

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