Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. You're always close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold and it's enough to break your heart.
Nicholas Sparks
Related Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do? TERRY PRATCHETT The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER "Dreams will always come true. The key is to get enough sleep." REZA FARIVAR Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, alway... ALEXANDRE DUMAS Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. SIGMUND FREUD Your dreams will come true, but do not be overly demanding. Be logical – there are not enough mans... STEPHEN RICHARDS The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that the... SUNDAY ADELAJA ' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' p... ROGER EBERT If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough. LORDE We are trying to get (property owners) out far enough so they have reasonable access to the water bu... CHARLES EVANS Love under the stars... they seem very far, but you are so close the star I love the most. DHARM BABU Now let's talk about dreams. Yes. Dreams. I believe that dreams are one of the best thing in the wor... DIANA ROSE MORCILLA I can't do with mountains at close quarters -- they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, n... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Every Person wishes to stay happy, to flourish And live enough to see his dreams come true. SALSABEEL Our dreams and goals are never completely realized. They are always there before
our eyes, but alway... JACQUELINE ONASSIS In this world, the pursuit of dreams leads to a life so painful and frustrating the mere thought of ... WATARU WATARI Maybe so, but the last couple of years have been close games that they could've won. We're not good ... GENE CATHCART I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid... D. H. LAWRENCE We were close but not quite good enough. DERRIKE COPE If they cant get close enough to hurt you, they cant get close enough to love you. NEIL GAIMAN Simple dreams are the hardest to come true MELINA MARCHETTA When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dr... MARCEL PROUST You can always dream, and your dreams will come true, but you have to make them come true. MICHAEL JACKSON Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable... JESSIE B. FREMONT It was so sparse out there they didn't get close enough to each other to collide and form a planet. ANDY PUCKETT Never before had I opened myself so to the pain of truth: so wonderfully simple in theory, yet alway... ROSS TURNER I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect l... PATRICK DEMPSEY One day enough work will have been done. Enough prayers will have been said. Enough confidence will ... RENAE A. SAUTER Friendships are what our dreams are made of. We hold onto each other with its binding love. We stand... ELISABETH FOLEY Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can... ANNE MICHAELS The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that the... SUNDAY ADELAJA I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. T rang you over and over again and you woul... MELINA MARCHETTA I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. I rang you over and over again and you would nev... MELINA MARCHETTA Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, eve... PHILLIP SWEET Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral. Pretty. But dreams do not come tru... SHONDA RHIMES a tongue has no bones but it is strong enough to break the heart so be carefull about ur words IRINA SWART My parents are divorced, but they have and always are there for me. They've never missed a ball ... ERIC WINTER If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shri... SUZY KASSEM A bookstore is one of the many pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. JERRY SEINFELD Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your ... JAMES DEAN Words are never enough! ANTHONY T. HINCKS If you have a strong commitment to your goal,follow your commitment with passion.If your dreams not ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA He's always been able to do just enough to give you hope that we're close, WARREN MOON You would never give up if you knew how close you were, would you? So never give up because you are ... VIKRANT PARSAI I know people who always travel a little off the path. They are never quite able to follow direction... FAWN ARRINGTON If you have desire, potential & talent but If you don't have enough determination you would never cl... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I thought we had enough scrapping points to keep us in the game. They got a lot too, but we got enou... GREG MORGAN We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on t... R. A. TORREY I came close, ... But close isn't good enough. JOHNNY DAMON Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action. CRAIG GROESCHEL If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shri... SUZY KASSEM I spoke it soft, but close enough to brush against her lips. I spoke it quiet, but near enough so th... PATRICK ROTHFUSS The testimonies we have heard so far are moving but they are not enough and that's causing us concer... NEHAL BHUTA They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too. OSCAR WILDE Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to cur... DOUGLAS COUPLAND The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not i... RICK HANSEN If your dreams are small enough to stay in the country, you'll still have to learn Chinese and creol... DEDRICK D. L. PITTER He said he heard the helicopters, but he didn't feel they were close enough. CINDY DODDS There isn't anything to worry about between science and religion, because the contradictions are jus... HENRY J. EYRING But he'll be close enough to walk home. ANTONIO TARVER Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. JOHN C. MAXWELL Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. JOHN MAXWELL We hold our dreams and ideals close to our hearts, where the promises are made to the future generat... JOHN RACHEL All I can tell you is this. Some hearts break from grief some from joy. Some even break from love. B... CATHERINE M. WILSONSON Your frienemies stand close enough for you to see them but stand back just enough not to catch you i... TROY GATHERS I think finales are always so hit or miss because they're so personal. When you do a finale, it&... PHILIP WINCHESTER When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are str... FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT They're a very resilient team. They believe in themselves too much, and so sometimes they don't play... BILL RESLER Always follow your dreams, never look behind, hold your head up high and walk to the sky. AMAR ACE PATTI The dark is generous and it is patient and it always wins – but in the heart of its strength lies ... MATTHEW WOODRING STOVER Dreams so often become nightmares. Family can so easily become foes. And people are always more stup... MIKE A. LANCASTER When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again. STEPHEN BAXTER I think we all need to believe in hope: that if we have dreams and if we have ambitions and if we ha... DAVID FURNISH When you lose sight of your morals, your standards, your true beliefs you lose the fire that drives ... EBRAHIM SIALA Dreams alone aren't enough to make your belly full. , ANIMAL CROSSING: WILD WORLD, 2005 A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. UNKNOWN ...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little perfo... DAPHNE DU MAURIER It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now. ALLEN GINSBERG It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now. ALLEN GINSBERG Dreams don't come true. They are made true. THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but... EDWARD DE BONO I always call my cousin because we're so close. We're almost like sisters, and we're also close beca... BRITNEY SPEARS Because my life is so full, I'm usually focused on the present and not the future. But now I have to... LISA ROSE The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the ... ERNST F. SCHUMACHER The dreams you see most clearly are most likely to come true. BARNEY THE DINOSAUR Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough. CHUCK PALAHNIUK I was really happy. But it's almost painful to be so close. COURTNEY ZABLOCKI Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had. ALICE SEBOLD The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet. AI YAZAWA Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to l... MARY ASTELL If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough. ROBERT CAPA There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over. JACK BERGMAN What do dreams matter if you lose yourself along the way? AMY FELLNER DOMINY I did a push-up today. Well actually I fell down, but I had to use my arms to get back up, so close ... ANONYMOUS That was close to being foul. I didn't mean for it to be that close, but it was good enough. KYLE HUDSON Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future fille... ALBERT EINSTEIN Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future fille... KAREN RAVN You are, and always have been, my dream.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook NICHOLAS SPARKS
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NICHOLAS SPARKS Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible. NICHOLAS SPARKS Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when ... NICHOLAS SPARKS It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee. NICHOLAS SPARKS If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was... NICHOLAS SPARKS When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every sing... NICHOLAS SPARKS Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll alw... NICHOLAS SPARKS Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he... NICHOLAS SPARKS and all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up... NICHOLAS SPARKS Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person. NICHOLAS SPARKS And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just le... NICHOLAS SPARKS There's no love like the first. NICHOLAS SPARKS I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be. NICHOLAS SPARKS She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that rig... NICHOLAS SPARKS How far should a person go in the name of true love? NICHOLAS SPARKS Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished w... NICHOLAS SPARKS love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. NICHOLAS SPARKS Amanda olhou para ele - Tens de compreender que já não sou a rapariga que era dantes. Sou casada e... NICHOLAS SPARKS If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem. NICHOLAS SPARKS Cierro los ojos y me convierto en un barco intrépido, osado e invencible en medio de un mar agitado... NICHOLAS SPARKS Te quiero, Allie. Soy quien soy gracias a ti. Tú eres todas mis razones, todas mis esperanzas y tod... NICHOLAS SPARKS En momentos de pena y sufrimiento, te abrazaré y te reconfortaré, tomaré tu tristeza y la haré m... NICHOLAS SPARKS La poesía aporta una gran belleza a la vida, pero también una gran tristeza, y no estoy seguro de ... NICHOLAS SPARKS La razón por la que nos duele tanto separarnos es porque nuestras almas están enlazadas. Quizá si... NICHOLAS SPARKS Nos enamoramos a pesar de sus diferencias, y de nuestra relación surgió algo genuino y hermoso. NICHOLAS SPARKS —Supongo que todavía anhelo la clase de amor que compartimos aquel verano. NICHOLAS SPARKS Esa chica fue tu primer amor, y hagas lo que hagas, siempre estará presente en tu corazón. NICHOLAS SPARKS Hacía tiempo que había aprendido a gozar de las cosas sencillas, cosas que no se podían comprar. NICHOLAS SPARKS Creo que en la vida todo es posible. NICHOLAS SPARKS Nadie ha erigido un monumento en mi honor y mi nombre pronto caerá en el olvido, pero he amado a un... NICHOLAS SPARKS Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your ... NICHOLAS SPARKS F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner have fewer published novels combined tha... NICHOLAS SPARKS It's very difficult to find someone when you don't know the parent's names or have a street address, NICHOLAS SPARKS Having the book sell out of stores is far and away the most difficult step of all. Walk into a books... NICHOLAS SPARKS ...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening... NICHOLAS SPARKS "You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't kn... NICHOLAS SPARKS I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church. NICHOLAS SPARKS I'm Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We're very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. W... NICHOLAS SPARKS Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom l... NICHOLAS SPARKS Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished w... NICHOLAS SPARKS What are we, after all, without our memories … without our dreams? NICHOLAS SPARKS