Someone should keep reminding Mr. Average Man that he was born free, divine, strong; uncrushable by fate, society, or hell itself; and… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining,… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art,… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
It's a difficult thing to describe theology, what it means and how it disciplines thinking. Certainly, theology is the level at which… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Coming of age as a young queer man of color, it was a rarity to see any reflections of myself portrayed in… — Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Copy Share Image
Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
There are two 'Snow White' movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was 'Armageddon'… — Armie Hammer Copy Share Image
In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities and… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
“Girl going past clinging to a young man's arm. Putting up her face like a duck to the moon. Drinking joy. Green… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“it occurred to him that kids were better at almost dying, and they were also better at incorporating the inexplicable into their… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“[I]f we could imagine a world without slavery and abolish that institution, then we can face the troubles we have now. .… — Tony Leuzzi Copy Share Image
“I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me. I missed them all, through deliberate negligence, Having waited for the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination -… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
“It was all beginning to run together in the back of Eleanor's mind, and the things that had probably really happened were… — Jane Langton Copy Share Image
Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
When you do your collection, you are much more free. You have fewer boundaries. When you work on a movie, you have… — Milena Canonero Copy Share Image
The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance,… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
“Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no… — Henry de Vere Stacpoole Copy Share Image
With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Everyone is good at something, and you'll come to find out that the more you share your treasures, the shinier they get,… — Lee Simonson Copy Share Image
“Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Don’t try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination.… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Your imagination is the single most important asset you possess. Your imagination is your power to create mental pictures of things that… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
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