#imagination

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#imagination #beauty

Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason to despair, but don’t, may have the most to teach us, not only about how to hold true to our beliefs, but about how such a life can bring about seemingly impossible social change. ↗

— Paul Rogat Loeb

#hope #imagination #social-change #change

When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#circling #dejan-stojanovic #force #imagination #literature

The first time I met death, it was at a ball and we danced a waltz. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#isabella-s-imagination #seduction-and-scandal #death

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#courage

I have no auditory depth perception. She said, “I love you,” and I couldn’t even tell if she was 300 miles away, or 6 feet below my feet and 300 years away.
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— Jarod Kintz

#auditory #cemetery #death #depth-perception #grave

You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power. ("Mind Over Murder") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#imagination #murder #death

There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#design

I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#dream #imagination #dreams

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#imagination #lovers #madmen #reason #dreams