Childhood Dreams Quotes
![John Grisham quote: "Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall..."](/pic/217658/600x316/quotation-john-grisham-writing-was-not-a-childhood-dream-of-mine-i-do.jpg)
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![Valentina Tereshkova quote: "Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the..."](/pic/119144/600x316/quotation-valentina-tereshkova-anyone-who-has-spent-any-time-in-space.jpg)
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
Ben Okri
Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It...
Gaston Bachelard
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