- “Respect is reverence out of love, Fear is reverence out of hate.Choose Wisely” ― Abhishek Shukla, The Reflection “Success or Stress”Choose Wisely
- “I know noble accentsAnd lucid, inescapable rhythms;But I know, too,That the blackbird is involvedIn what I know.” ― Wallace Stevens
- “A poor original is better than a good imitation.” ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- “When you’re socially awkward, you’re isolated more than usual, and when you’re isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.” ― David Almond, My Name Is Mina
- “Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before.” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” ― Albert Einstein
- “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” ― Saul Bellow
- “Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything” ― Henry Miller, Sexus
- “[T]he many use art and the few receive it. The many behave in this like a man who talks who should listen or gives when he should take. I do not mean by this that the right spectator is passive. His is also an imaginative activity; but an obedient one.” ― C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
- “It is hard to imagine the things you have never seen.” ― Steven J. Carroll, All the Worlds of Men
- “Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film!!” ― CK Webb
- “Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don’t allow you to live and Oxygen don’t let you die.” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “The infinite possibilities that exist in any given moment cause infinite possibilities in response. The wording is correct here; the possibilities exist already, and have already caused the existing possibilities of response.” ― Darrell Calkins, Re:
- “The exact proportion and combination of the qualities within you, as they are, even while you search and struggle for them to be different or better, is a unique beauty.” ― Darrell Calkins, Re:
- “A steampunk nationBaby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning ’causeOur art’s official and only partially artificialAnd our heart’s in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal butThere’s not where it settlesBecause it’s beating to the steaming of God’s hottest pot or kettleAnd now we face it, this creation we made toTo save our craving for a synthetic rebelnation it’sOur safeway they make into a pathetic revelationIn our steampunk nationOur steampunk nation” ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
- “The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.” ― Emmanuel Mounier, Personalism
- “A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God.” ― Sidney Sheldon
- “Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.” ― Dorothy Thompson
- “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
- “A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creative process.” ― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
- “A beautiful sentence and a beautiful sunrise derive from the same source.” ― Marty Rubin
- “Don’t ask creator to guide your footsteps if you’re not willing to move your feet.” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “We are no longer so lacking in fantasy as to uphold the existence of a god.” ― Carl Einstein, Bebuquin
- “Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “The longer you think about truth and wisdom, the more clearly you come to understand that they’re figments of the imagination; and what does that leave?” ― K.J. Parker, Blue and Gold
- “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
- “Tolkien, lucky man, had protected a realm of his own invention to which he could flee. Robert Graves, embittered by battle, writes: The child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his… Wisdom made him old and wary banishing his Lords of Faery” ― Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
- “The love Nora and I shared was certainly grand. We built our own fantasy worlds. We would sometimes role-play. At times, she was the captive and I was the rescuer who traveled the world and swam the seven seas to save her. Other times, she was the nurse who attended to my needs as I recovered from a deadly unknown disease, which was miraculously cured by love and a soft kiss from her luscious lips. We shared everything with each other. We found happiness, we found comfort, we found security, and we found love. Together, we would let our imaginations soar beyond the heavens. We imagined what our wedding would look like, and the songs we would dance to. We named our future kids.” ― Hani Selim, Osama’s Jihad
- “You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you’ll do next.” ― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas