Look at a dream like a pearl necklace, each individual dream is perfect and shimmering in it’s own right. Together they form a beautiful chain of inspiration and excitement. My hope is that you’ll be inspired to follow your own dreams when you read about other people’s dreams and wishes.

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 My dream, or dreams, is to be able to travel around the world, write and share about them to many others who doesn’t have the chance to see it themselves yet. I hope to be able to work in the Art/Cultural development industry (precisely what I haven’t decided) but I feel really strongly for a need of some different kind of fresh air into my busy financial hub hometown. I want to raise awareness of elderly welfares because I feel like that is really something that connects to my heart.

I think most of all, I want to be free from the burden of family and peer expectations and do what I love, so I can wake up everyday eager to move forward. Don’t know the exact plans, still exploring, but I’m sure God had planned for something good.

- Lee Jane

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I wish to live abroad while I am still young and figuring my way through life. It’s been a vision of mine since I was a little girl and chance I didn’t get to take during university. Now that I’ve graduated, I want to leap and do this somehow.

- Carrie

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My dream: To run for Miss New Mexico USA in the hopes of becoming a figure of leadership, and to have the chance to touch so many people in my home state through serving the community. I want to run for Miss NM USA to show kids that you don’t have to be perfect to be beautiful.

- Jessica Jordana Gobble

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I want to help start a community education collective in Detroit. I’m a big believer in informal education as a huge force in increasing the self-respect and activity in depressed and isolated communities (and therefore, improving the neighborhood and politics too).

Fixing up an old storefront to be a friendly, attractive place for folks to come and hang out is the first step, then offering the space to existing community organizations as a meeting space, then starting a free school and offering affordable day care and afterschool activities (almost impossible to come by in the city). 

- Maggie

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My dream is renewal. I have lived my whole life as a canvas to others. I am ready to take charge over my own life and make it beautiful to me. My passion is my Lord and my Lord is Christ. With Him this is possible and only through Him will I achieve this goal. Some of the things that I want to do for myself is travel abroad, establish a stable career that I love, and surround myself with people who value me and not wish to change me. This is my dream.

- Trisha

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- Pari

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  Take control of my life. To make time to do the things I love everyday. Not let them sink to the back burner and fizzle away. To be confident in the person I am and to realize the goals I have for myself. To be able to be confident in my beliefs and freely share how I think and feel. To live out my life!

- Lisa Hedlof, Grub for Gratitude

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To inspire a wad of beautiful folks to take steps to find the thing that makes all the cells in their body hi-five. Then watch them all grow & rock it, serving the universe with their delicious gifts.

- Casey, Sir Flamingo

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I want for once in my life to be irresponsible.
To do what I want to do, to do what inspires me and what makes me fulfilled,
than to do what others expect of me.
To earn a good living, take care of the family, do the housework, feed and walk the dog, etc.
… only to be told nobody asked me to do it in the first place.
I want to break free.. break free from being the responsible one.
I want to travel, to see the world.
I don’t want to work for my pension only to live out my old age in bitterness and regret.

- WaiYee (Singapore)

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To make a contribution. to die knowing that i have left the world a better place. to make a concrete and tangible difference.

- Tammy

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This may be a stereotypical dream, but I long to see the world.

I’ve lived in the same town all my life, only venturing away to go to university. I’ve never been on a holiday that lasted longer than 2 weeks. And yet I suffer from a burning wanderlust, a desire to see what else is out there.

My imagination always ran wild as a child. I would bury my head in stories from around the world. I remember visiting Tenerife on a family holiday and straying off the beaten track, ending up in a picturesque village nestled in the hillside, full of white-washed houses and suntanned locals hanging up their clothes to dry.

I want to live among the locals. I want to immerse myself in other cultures. I want to see as much of the world as I can.

- Rebecca, Off the Mat

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To find myself in the midst of people not trying to change the real me. To chase my dreams and goals while staying true to myself. To emerge as a confident young woman who deserve nothing less than what she expects of herself which is the best. To conquer her fears that keeps her from achieving what she truly desires. To show others that she’s smart and capable of reaching the top while still staying humble and courteous.

- Patricia

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To touch the lives of everyone around me with love & happiness. Whether that be through healing, laughing, or a simple smile. Everyone should feel important and worth something.

- Rachel DeMers

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My dream is to become a great novelist, screenplay writer, stage and movie director. I dream I write and make art for the rest of my life. I dream my life is abundant with creative projects that allow me to serve the other and I become prosperous and can provide a good life for my son. I wish to marry a handsome man who is intellect and skilled and works in the similar fields as I do and he accepts my son as his own son. I wish to receive the MFA in the creative writing program. I wish to travel around the world and make it part of my career and life. I wish I have my own studio to do all my artworks. I dream I won awards including the Oscar for my works. I dream I live in a beautiful house with rooms for all of my family and friends.

- Leslie

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Ever since I was a little girl I have always been reserved and put together. I wanted to be perfect and never wanted to mess up, but when I did, I put myself down for it and felt like the worst failure to my family, friends, and myself.

My dream is to let go – To be spontaneous – To travel and see places that are different, beautiful, and inspiring. I want to visit every continent (including Antarctica) and meet people of different cultures. I want to do something irresponsible and exciting. I want to go to college and pursue something that I love, no matter if I will make money or not. I want to fulfill my dreams and live my life.

- Anonymous

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To be the best I can be at everything that I am, and to place a huge crater in the social media. My mark on the world.

- MissStar

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shanti. {peace. tranquility. calmness & bliss}
so’ham. {i am that}

My dream is to become a yoga instructor so i can share both with the world.

- Elyse

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My dream is to make the world a little bit better for my existence. I hope to do so by spreading beauty, happiness and positivity, and also through my work (one day) as an anthropologist. I dream of owning my grandfathers farm and having a lovely small house that sits gently on the earth where I can while away my time writing; and I dream of having wonderful, glowing people to share it with.

- Courtney

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Have you ever dreamt something so large you don’t know how to put it into words..? It’s sort of just a scramble of feelings and a couple of hazy pictures. I’ve had this dream as long as I can remember. The biggest dream of my heart. And the most succinct title I can give it is, ‘South Africa’. My heart lies with my country. And though I know changing a country for the better to the degree I want to, is essentially impossible.. I am also proud to say it has been done once before here. And I know one other thing… All things are possible with Jesus. I hope I never stop hoping. Because I want to do the things that people say only the brave do and possibly only the insane… I want to bring unparalleled, unimagineable change!

- Anonymous

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My dream is to find and live in the freedom of being me. To stop living under the expectations of others. As I learn to reach out and connect with others I am learning this is possible. Freedom to be me is mine if chose to take it.

- Linnette

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My dream is to make my website into a successful business. It started as a daily fashion blog, then people were interested in my life!! I LOVE blogging and taking photographs, but I am not finacially stable enough to devote myself to the blog yet… so that is my dream. And I will work hard at it!!

- Jandi Followill

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My dream is for everyone to really, truly, utterly believe that is is entirely possible to live as we dream. My intention is to lead by example, by being a real life fear alchemist, and whenever possible assist others in breaking down the mental barriers we all have through experiential learning. My dream is for people to live as they dream, and by virtue of that, give the best of themselves in this life.

- Heather Thorkelson

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I want to be a speaker motivating abused women in shelters,and those who are in abusive relationships,wish to leave but they can’t. And also to go around schools speaking to young girls teaching them about self love,worth and self respect. And I also want to start a shelter in a squatter camp not so far from where i live,women and children abuse is rife there and a change in mindset is needed,i want to apply this through holding continous workshops for women in the area.

- Lindie

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My dream is to move to Ethiopia alone within a year. My dream is to live in a wild country of terrible poverty and beautiful people, and make a difference in as many lives as possible. I want to make a new home in a place that couldn’t be more different from the home I’ve known, and prove that home is not a building, but a place where the heart says “yes!” I dropped out of high school after my junior year, because my desire to pursue my dreams was too great to keep waiting. I took my GED test, and got a full time job to save for when I leave, which I’m hoping will be around my 18th birthday, in April of 2013. My dream boils down to two simple facts, 1: My heart belongs in Ethiopia. And 2: I was created to live simply, and love richly.

- Madeline

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  I want to stop just taking it all in and start giving back. I want to start showing my true self to the world. Because 99% of the time, I don’t. Because it’s so damn scary. But I want to get over that fear and start working through those emotions and that creativity that I have within me.

-   Carolina

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My dream is to be happy. I want to wake up every morning and be content with myself. I want to believe in the good in this world and not become jaded by the hurt. I want to love others so much it hurts. I want those I love to count on me, to believe in me, to need me. I want to inspire others. I want to constantly grow. I want to stay curious and open-minded. I want to help someone. I want to change someone’s life and not know it. I want to fulfill whatever my purpose is for being here. I want to be satisfied.

- Sarah

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My dream is to write a romantic screenplay about the realities of relationships and help the movie come to life while working on its’ crew. Nora Ephron was my inspiration to go to school and to continue writing. I aim to be half the writer that she was.

- Sarah

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My dream is to support myself financially writing creative non-fiction. My dream is to extricate myself from my job as a veterinary receptionist that leaves me feeling emotionally drained and requires me to be in situations that are incredibly uncomfortable for me. I write nearly everyday before work and love the feeling I get from it. My dream is to be able to earn a living from this pleasure.

- Roberta

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My dream is to make my own happiness. I want to study abroad and travel, i want to make a documentary or journal while traveling and talk to locals, find special people who aren’t famous and tell their stories. I want to create a movie about the girl who doesnt have that great love, a real girl just living day to day but who is happy in the end, it will entirely realistic in the most enjoyable way (im thinking really ugly crying and a disgusting pig out session). I want to work in either the fashion industry or the film industry, I dream of looking at and creating beautiful things for the rest of my life.

- Cicely

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I want to touch the Universe. I want to write and draw and create out of that well of emotion and inspiration deep within me. I want to work because I enjoy it, not because I need the money. I want to walk on the beach with the man I love, and go to ball games with my son. I want to sing to the wind, dance under the stars, and chase storms across the high plains. I want to release the pain and grief I’ve carried so long, so I can be free to feel every new emotion Life sends my way.

I want to be the real me. I want to make a difference, even in just one person’s life. I want to be happy and healthy and love the world with every fiber of my existence.

- Charlotte

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My dream is to be a helping hand in the happiness of everyone I love and hold dear. I am perfectly content, no matter where I am or however hard I’m working or however busy I am, so long as I know that everyone that I love is happy, always. I love life, because of the people I have in it. My life is nothing without the ones I love most. It’s cliche, but so true that as long as they are happy…I am beyond ecstatic.

- Bella Toscano

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My dream is to take advantage of every day I will have. Think and do outside what I thought was possible for a poor girl. I want to take use all the potential in myself till there is nothing left and to glow with happiness from it.

- Cassi

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To radically change the way the next generation of teenagers view themselves and the world. to empower them. to show them that helping eachother and promoting eachothers success will create the most productive peaceful world they have ever seen.

- Anonymous

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My dream is to share my talent with the world. I want to become a concert pianist, a marine bioligist, a hair dresser, an artist, and a writer. Some of these I’ve wanted to do since I was a little girl, and my mom has told me many times that I CAN do all of those things and more! That is my dream.

- Alex

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I want to live a life where I am content with my body and mind. A life filled with passion and drive. I long to experience all the world has to offer.
I want to serve in Africa and live in Austria. I want to swim with dolphins and climb the highest mountains.
There is so much potential that the earth holds, many people miss the opportunity to take advantage of it.

I will not be that person who misses out on life.

I will explore this great, big, beautiful, amazing world.

- Sarah

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My Dream is to own a chain of daycare/ early learning centers for the advancement of education. My Dream is to learn as many languages as I can in my lifetime to communicate with my family at home (United States) and abroad. My Dream is to free the minds of those who are mentally imprisoned and lacking a life giving sources. My Dream is to help others create their dreams and continue to pay it forward for the hopes of a better tomorrow. It ties together in my mind and heart.

- Fahtina

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My dream is to build a community of like-minded jewelry designers to help them with the challenges of taking a risk and going after their dreams.  When I started my first jewelry business, I struggled with having enough knowledge to keep it going and it would have been so much easier if I had a resource to tap in to. As a jewelry designer myself in the second incarnation of my business, I find that having the freedom to change my path at any given time has been a powerful one. I resisted for years and made a really scary decision to make a HUGE change. Fear paralyzed me. The funny part is that I am so happy now. Without the challenges that I faced in the past, I would never be where I am today.

My dream is to simply be happy.

My personal dream is to explore the world by traveling to all seven continents, and living in multiple! my professional dream is to help others empower themselves, reach their full potential, and give all children the chance to be innocent.

- Michelle

My dream is to be happy. Really truly happy.

– Anonymous

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  My dream is to learn to be happy and healthy again.
To live in the present, and not in the past or future.
To accept who I am and what I am capable of.
To learn to accept change.
To learn to turn darkness into light, despair into positive change.

– Anonymous

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I get mad at dreams because they are not real. I want, I desire my reality to be less stressful and make sense. More often than not I feel I am floating and doing nothing to benefit who I am or others around me. If my dreams took over my reality, I would know what to believe and what I am suppose to do. Are not dreams conjured up because of that question we all ask ourselves, “what is my purpose?”. It is so frustrating to me to dream and feel I can become who I see I am in my head until reality sinks in. The ways of the world are drowning my dreams and many others who are to blind to notice. To be honest, I wish someone could ask me this question every day I wake up, “What is your dream?”. Guarantee, it would change every morning.

– Jamilee

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I’m seventeen and in high school. My dreams scare the hell out of me, but I hear thats a good thing. I live in Alabama in a tiny town, and by tiny I mean 100 kids in my graduating class. I yearn for SO much more than this place can give me. People here just don’t get it. They don’t search for a deeper meaning and long for it like I do. My dream is to live in New York. Even if just for a short time, I must live there once in my life. That city hold my heart after just one visit. Marthe, you have inspired me beyond reason. Thank you all!

– Hannah Williams

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I dream to be a positive influence on someones life. I dream to be happy and work everyday on something I love surrounded by the people I love and who love me in return. I dream to be at peace.

– Brandi

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My dream is let go. To be free. To do more yoga and really feel it in my soul. To enjoy my life and every moment I am given with my family, friends, and myself. To not take my husband for granite. And most of all to release the anxiety and stresses I hold about money and life.

– Angie Barker

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My dream is to run 2x 5k runs to raise money for injured troops and to buy a piece of equipment in memory of a fallen friend who lost his life in Afghanisain in 2009. I started this dream this week and I started this dream thanks to you Marthe, and I WILL achieve my dream.

– Emma

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My dream is to be a professional singer and to create and share music that genuinely touches people. I want to make a difference through my songs, giving people the chance to think and feel something different, opening their hearts and minds to new ways of loving and being. I’d love to use music to offer people hope when they have none. To be able to successfully express some of the joy, sadness and beauty that I witness everyday in nature, the world and all of its wonderful people. Ultimately… to make a difference, to truly live and to truly love!

– Naomi

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My dream is to go on a Yoga retreat with my mum. Hopefully my dream will come true within the next few years!

– Irena

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My current dream is to open a chain of low emission hair studios across the USA that cater to movers and the shakers who are out there making a difference in the world – not with their pocket book, but with their spirit and passion. Hair can be done without the BIG 4 – Ammonia, Thio, Lye and Formaldehyde – and it can be affordable.

– Deidra

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My dream is to live a life I’d be jealous of.

– LDLB

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I dream to find out for myself who I want to be & what I want to do. I dream to be happy with myself & learn to love myself. I wanna look in the mirror & say ” Look how far I’ve come, look how happy, beautiful, & strong I am.”I have an overwhelming wanderlust that I crave to fulfill. I wanna see the world in my own eyes, see the world as it is; the small coastal villages, the mountains & creeks only few have seen. I wanna marry the man of my dreams, & fulfill my dreams with him by my side. I dream to be the best I can be. I wanna look back on my life & know I lived it to the fullest, that I didn’t let fear or judgment get in the way of exploring & experiencing life. I dream to love the little things & family the best I can. Dream Big.

– Nikell

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My dream is to own an international non-profit organization, traveling around the world, and helping others.

– Nena Ocampo

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freedom

- Elise

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My dream is a story I hope someone reads. I am Sharbel. I live in a tiny village in Israel. When I was a kid, I always dreamed to be a soccer player. I told my parents that I want to join a team but they didn’t accept. They forbid me from the most thing I love. I begged them but they didn’t want to pay. When I became 16 years old, I decided to join a team by my own but before I joined the team, I got injured in my right leg at school. I went to a doctor and he gave me a medicine but it didn’t work and another one also didn’t work and more but didn’t work. My family didn’t help me, no one did. I am 19 years old now. I am still recovering and my dream is disappearing in front of me. I am desperate no one will accept me. I don’t know what to do.

- Sharbel Mousa

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To become one of the youngest people in the music industry. I want to write song lyrics, collaborate with someone to put them to music, and then sing them! I’d love to have my voice heard and loved in the world.

- Sara Alicea

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I want to live a life, waking up to birds chirping, and the sun shining on my face. Feeling warm from the inside and out. 

I want to practice law in California, and be involved in the legal side of media and entertainment. I am in Law School in Toronto, but my dream is to be international. I will take and pass the bar in both California and Ontario (I don’t care how many times I need to take it). 

Before then, I want the wisdom and patience to understand that my dreams will come in time, and I want to be happy where I am in the meantime. No matter what stage I am at, I want to feel fulfilled and compelled to embrace it, let go, and move on.

My biggest dream is to live a life of courage and fearlessness – never afraid to start over.

- Mona Zarifian

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To be a college soccer play to inspire girls younger then me and let them know that they are strong, they just need to dig deep to find there strength. I want girls to know that if you truly work hard you can reach your goals.
To be an artist who’s work shows the beauty in nature and gives others a sense of serenity. To visit a monastery and sit in science to reach into myself and question who I really am.

- Anonymous

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My dream is write books of love poetry. To write music and turn them into albums. To live in Haiti and hold the broken orphans in my arms. To be a star in a musical. To love like Jesus did. To be the definition of passion!

- Sarah Stevens

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To find and stay true to my brightest self. To let myself be enough. To write and read as many books as I can. To not miss the point of life.

- Gina

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