Imaginative Quote by Willa Cather Download Open image “Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.” — Willa Cather ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Imaginative Life Personal life
We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you, as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much… — John Miller Copy Share Image
It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one. — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact. That is—everything around you that you call life was made up by people… — Vishen Lakhiani Copy Share Image
The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart." "More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly,… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully. "It's a lady's privilege.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Money and office and success are the consolations of impotence. Fortune turns kind to such solid people and lets them suck their bone in peace. She flecks her whip upon flesh that is more alive, upon that stream of hungry boys and girls who tramp the streets of every city, recognizable by their pride and discontent, who are the Future,… — Willa Cather Copy Share
But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness… — Willa Cather Copy Share
“You remember how homesick I used to get, and what long talks we used to have coming from school? We've someway always felt alike about things." "Yes, that's it; we've liked the same things and we've liked them together, without anybody else knowing. And we've had good times, hunting for Christmas trees and going for ducks and making our plum… — Willa Cather Copy Share
“He placed this book in my grandmother's hands, looked at her entreatingly, and said, with an earnestness which I shall never forget, "Te-e-ach, te-e-ach… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative… — Robert Hewison Copy Share Image
I definitely go through periods where I'm in a particular mood, or there's a consistent imaginative context that I feel I'm in, and I'm drawn to certain things. I can sometimes feel it when I'm moving away from something that I was once interested in - an idea or an exploration of particular relationships. I go, 'Well, I think I've… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share
When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter the dining room as things of beauty in colour and texture. Food should be served with real care as to the colour and texture on… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share
Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all kinds of unorthodox expression, all kinds of daring in the handling of materials, and I preferred to surround myself with this type of art than with the great collectors' pieces. I had always in my… — Jacques Lipchitz Copy Share
I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is… — David Hare Copy Share Image
The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern… — C. D. Innes Copy Share
When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense of responsibility… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5 billion pieces… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
On the spectrum of imagination, there are people who are more imaginative than others - I guess some kids are hardcore pretenders and have… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
