- “Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of its unearthly cravings and needs. We think that when a lover inflates his loved one he is failing to acknowledge her flaws – “Love is blind.” But it may be the other way around. Love allows a person to see the true angelic nature of another person, the halo, the aureole of divinity. Certainly from the perspective of ordinary life this is madness and illusion. But if we let loose our hold on our philosophies and psychologies of enlightenment and reason, we might learn to appreciate the perspective of eternity that enters life as madness, Plato’s divine frenzy.” ― Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
- “The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may glimpse something that seems of interest. But when we bring it out and examine it more closely it usually proves to be only trash whose glitter had caught our attention. Imagination is at once the source of all hope and inspiration but also of frustration. To forget this is to court despair.” ― William Ian Beardmore Beveridge, The Art of Scientific Investigation
- “That you are a born again Christian does not mean you will automatically succeed except you follow God’s principles. Never forget faith without good work is dead.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Every person has his secret; in reverie, unbeknown to others, he finds peace, freedom, sorrow and love.” ― Abhishek Shukla, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1
- “Even though it may look like the wicked is gaining ground, God is still in control. We need to pray for our nations, pray for others, pray for forgiveness and mercy over people. We need to love no matter who we are talking to, whether they are Atheist, Moslems, Lesbians, Homosexuals or Pagans. We need to love them and share the love of God with them and not judge and see if we can rebuild our broken nations.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “One could make a nice link between imagination and spirit. To make that link, all we need is some inspiration. Essentially, imagination has the innate potential to compel or inspire and to set in motion causation. That’s why it exists.” ― Darrell Calkins, Re:
- “If our thoughts are slumping down into a muddling pie of oblivion, we must empower our minds to go beyond vain details or useless conventions. Scanning the reach on the horizon and challenging our imagination can allow us to recognize the essentials of our human condition and achieve harmony in our lives. (“Dirty bike)” ― Erik Pevernagie
- “We are so much distracted nowadays. There is so much distractions in the world today call it internet, media, football matches etc. but don’t let it consume you.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Apart from all environmental factors, when I was child, I used think that rain only drops when God cries. As God’s tears are so big, it can clean the Earth. From that days I was trying to cry purposely to clean something by my tears. But after so many sentiments, I came to know the real meaning of tears.” ― Sonal Takalkar
- “The sacred gift of parenthood is inscribe in the universal words ‘Papa’ and ‘Mama’.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “A woman is a loving mother, a gorgeous daughter, and beautiful angel of imagination.” ― Debasish Mridha M.D.
- “Throughout my days on Earth, I have gone by a myriad of names. I seasonally got wind of epithets such as a rootless strider, a hammer lacking a head, a trampled idealist, and in most instances a hopeless dreamer. And yet: One cannot bring a fantasist back to ground by such utterings. Words for him are like indistinct silhouettes above a sea. Seagulls that disappear into a morning fog. They will erode like statues of stone and abate like the men who built them. A dreamer’s hope can only succumb at the dawn of a more brilliant, precious one.” ― Vladimir Hlocky, Journeys Beyond Earth
- “Our life is not in stuff, focus your attention on Christ where it should be. Prosperity and wealth has damaged the body of Christ. God takes pleasure in the prosperity of his children but don’t replace him with material.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Imagination is the true magic carpet.” ― Norman Vincent Peale, Norman Vincent Peale: Three Complete Books: The Power of Positive Thinking; The Positive Principle Today; Enthusiasm Makes the Difference
- “An idea is salvation by imagination” ― Frank Lloyd Wright
- “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
- “There are three qualities that every individual must have to achieve success: a Monk’s patience, a Warrior’s courage, a Child’s imagination.” ― Sharad Vivek Sagar
- “We create karma by all kinds of selfish actions.The first thing we must understand is that we are psychologically asleep.It is very difficult for us to be conscious of ourselves. We are not very aware. We must come to recognize that we do not pay attention.” ― Abhishek S, KARMA
- “This didn’t sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him.” ― S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Pessimism
- “Even with fasting and prayers you still need wisdom. At the root of every great accomplishment is wisdom. In all your getting get wisdom first.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.” ― Jonathan Franzen
- “If satan succeds in blinding your mind, he has succeeded in arresting you because anything that can stop you from believing can stop your future.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Thinking is talking to yourself. Imagination is talking to the universe. Meditation is harmonizing your inner self with the universe.” ― Debasish Mridha
- “Stop explaining to others, people will only understand from their level of discernment.” ― Abhishek Shukla, The Reflection “Success or Stress”Choose Wisely
- “Poor means when we lack things in our lives. There are two types of poverty. …those that need food and shelter and those that need God in their lives. We are called to service to help both group of people as much as we can.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Preceding the birth of every religion, there was someone who was an incarnation of this process: imagination causes inspiration causes intuition causes beauty, which causes imagination…the dynamic that takes place in the dimension of spirit. That is, for whatever reasons that will remain mysterious, although they are suggested in various schools of thought, someone got the cause thing down right, and the rest flowed. After the fact, an effort was made, almost always by others, to control both the impact of this and the possible benefits from it. Ambition and desire took over. Where you had an exact presentation, or manifestation, of beauty and truth, somebody began using it for other purposes.” ― Darrell Calkins, Re:
- “Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.” ― Gloria Steinem
- “Live a life that leaves a memory, nobody can steal.” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “Believe, believe and it shall be!” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “Imagination is inner light.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita