Open Air Reader

Dreams grow if you grow. - Zig Ziglar

The absence of desire can be fatal. - Unknown

If you give up your dreams, you die. - Flashdance

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. - Oscar Wilde

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. - Nancy D Solomon

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. - John Boorman

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. - Erich Fromm

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. - Elias Canetti

For we are such stuff as dreams are made on, rounded with a sleep. - William Shakespeare

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. - Pearl S. Buck

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day He created spring. - Bernard Williams

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. - Charles Schwab

You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins. - Rachel Klein

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau

Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn. - John Wesley

Passion: A persistent preoccupation with an idea your boss considers unreasonable - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. - Maya Angelou

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. - Mignon McLaughlin

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time. - Elbert Green Hubbard

Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. - Tori Amos

Your attitude can take you forward or your attitude can take you down. The choice is always yours. - Catherine Pulsifier

A word of encouragement during failure is worth more than a dictionary of praise following success. - Unknown

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. - Jim Hightower

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope,
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. - T S Eliot

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. - Vincent McNabb

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill

Love without hope will not survive. Love without faith changes nothing. Love gives power to hope and faith. - Toba Beta

Dreams are what give us purpose, because without dreams we have no hope, and without hope we have no purpose. - Unknown

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. - G K Chesterton

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. - Douglas Coupland

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Oscar Wilde

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin - but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. - Harper Lee

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. - William James

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. - David Attenborough

Follow your dreams. Figure out where you'd like to be, what you would like to be doing, and then figure out what you need to do to get there. - Kennon M Sheldon

I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes. - Michael Grant

Playoff hockey is the best way to market your team. It's the best way to grow your fan base and give hope to your players and for them to develop. - Steve Yzerman