Happiness Quote by Brenda Ueland Download Open image “The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.” — Brenda Ueland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happiness Imagination Long Needs
... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations. — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido. — Peter Shepherd Copy Share Image
“In partnership with playfulness, the imagination gives us the ability to find and make purposeful patterns and even plotlines: in other words, the ability… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
Using one's imagination to the fullest is necessary for a happy life. — Claire Trevor Copy Share Image
One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out. — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion. — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“[4It is hard to be carefree when you have many anxieties. But the more you have, the more necessary it is to feel carefree… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five- or six-mile walk helps. And one must go alone and… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that you are… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed:… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls it out… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation.... There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
“WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE. WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS… — MARVIN J. ASHTON Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel ! — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content,… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image