#ife

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#life #life-and-living #life-lessons #opportunity #unexpected

No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide. ↗

— James Baldwin

#life #love #imagination

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping. ↗

— David Hume

#endurance #inspirational #joy #life #optimism

Look at the smile of a doctor as he delivers your baby, imagine the thrill as he makes the incision around your tumor. Then ask whether life isn’t just sport. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #life #sport #funny

When life gives you lemons, make assless chaps. ↗

— Angie West

#lemons #life

When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all? On the other hand it is tempting to try and make the best of it. I'm here, anyway. The imagination won't cope if I try to picture where I'd otherwise be. ↗

— Erlend Loe

#imagination

Her maktul katilinde yaşamaya devam eder. ↗

— Elif Shafak

#imagination #life #philosophy #truth #writing

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#life #imagination

And I would have answered: "The knottier the branch, the more twisted and misshapen, the more bent people called it, the harder it is to find it a place among the smooth planks, the more people agree that it should be thrown on the fire, the more useless it is, the more unsuitable for anything except letting one's imagination run riot, the more I covet it, the more I yearn to weigh it in my hand, the more I long to let my whittling knife be guided by its knots and veins...Yes, bring that piece to me... ↗

— Sjón

#strange #wise #imagination

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself. ↗

— Robert Henri

#everyone #exists #faculties #few #free