- “Whatever you desire is possible. You only need to begin dreaming.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “Imagining your ideal life success story is LESS about WHAT you want to do and MORE about WHO you want to become.” ― Richie Norton
- “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” ― Lewis Carroll
- “Imagination is a glorious wonder.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “Your vision will determine your future, mirror only helps you to see your ugly or beautiful face, but only the vision you have can take you far beyond your expectations and imaginations in life.” ― Bamigboye Olurotimi
- “Every crisis is a wisdom crisis. If you have no peace around you then you lack wisdom.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Don’t be afraid of failures it takes courage to try new things & only those who try create miracles.” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
- “I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.” ― John Guare, Six Degrees of Separation
- “You live in a limitless reality. Whatever boundary you construct is a lingering self-created thought. There is a paradise beyond.” ― Vladimir Hlocky, Journeys Beyond Earth
- “On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid,And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
- “Their meal was illuminated by torches, which Gwen found were utterly without fire. What the children called torches were really just small platforms on tall, wooden poles. The reason they radiated light was because fairies had flown up to them to waltz and glow on the tiny dance floors.” ― Audrey Greathouse, The Neverland Wars
- “Mindfulness is the art of making love to reality.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.” ― Roman Payne
- “The wildness of God is the sensuousness of God. Nature is the direct expression of the divine imagination. It is the most intimate reflection of God’s sense of beauty.” ― John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
- “All life is death. You don’t fool yourself about this anymore. You slash at the perfect canvas with strokes of paint and replace the perfect picture of your imagination with the reality of what you are capable of. From death, and sorrow, and compromise, you create. This is what it means, you finally realize, to be alive. (“The Chambered Fruit”)” ― M. Rickert, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940’s Until Now
- “Imagine and keep going, never give up.” ― Santosh Kumar (San)
- “When we are preoccupied with wealth and material acquisitions, it chokes God’s word in us and makes it unfruitful. But if we follow His plan of being prosperous you will enjoy the blessings of this life.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!” ― H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure
- “In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of “faëry lands forlorn,” where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart’s Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
- “All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. Without them, our lives get made up for us by other people.Human beings have always joined in groups to imagine how best to live and help one another carry out the plan. The essential function of human community is to arrive at some agreement on what we need, what life ought to be, what we want our children to learn, and then to collaborate in learning and teaching so that we and they can go on the way we think is the right way.Small communities with strong traditions are often clear about the way they want to go, and good at teaching it. But tradition may crystallize imagination to the point of fossilizing it as dogma and forbidding new ideas. Larger communities, such as cities, open up room for people to imagine alternatives, learn from people of different traditions, and invent their own ways to live.As alternatives proliferate, however, those who take the responsibility of teaching find little social and moral consensus on what they should be teaching — what we need, what life ought to be. In our time of huge populations exposed continuously to reproduced voices, images, and words used for commercial and political profit, there are too many people who want to and can invent us, own us, shape and control us through seductive and powerful media. It’s a lot to ask of a child to find a way through all that alone.Nobody can do anything very much, really, alone.What a child needs, what we all need, is to find some other people who have imagined life along lines that make sense to us and allow some freedom, and listen to them. Not hear passively, but listen.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000–2016, with A Journal of a Writer’s Week
- “When you see through what the conditioned mind-body thinks things mean, in particular its judgments of good and bad, you awaken to your true nature as peace and oneness with the spiritual essence of all life.” ― Andrew Seaton
- “She realized then that time passes, but the imagination remains, even if it does not seem to exist. (Elle comprit alors que le temps passe, mais l’imagination reste, même si cela semble ne pas exister)” ― Charles de Leusse, Les Contes de la nuit
- “Rebuilding is something that is practically difficult than starting over from nothing.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.” ― Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
- “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.” ― C.G. Jung
- “I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?” ― Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
- “My take on personal evolution is largely about the spirit of connecting and disconnecting things, relating to what I call “the gap” or time and space between things. It is also about becoming practical in all this, developing the power and precision to simply bring the grand ideas home, to compress the paradigm of perception/choice/action/result into a single gesture.” ― Darrell Calkins, Re:
- “I never knew the extent of God’s greatness until I hang on to His glorious hope.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind