#imagination

What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?" "Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire." "But, I saw-" "What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind." "What does the story mean, then?" "It means what you want it to mean," Hoid said. "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think , but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#imagination

I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#fearless #inspirational #women #imagination

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit. ↗

— Doris Day

#explicit #imagination #vulgarity

No matter who you are or what you've been through realize in this life there is nothing that you cannot do" Imagine This Imagine That ↗

— Yanatha Desouvre

#imagination

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#art

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers. ↗

— Les Baxter

#becomes #challenge #hit #imagination #ingenuity

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#eden #grow #imagination #like #love

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#bitter #cosmic #destroy #due #imagination

With the possible exception of the higher reaches of pure mathematics or theoretical physics, one can scarcely imagine anything more inhuman than philosophy. Its worship of logic in all its cold, crystalline purity; its determination to stride the bleak and icy mountaintops of theory and abstraction: to be a philosopher is to be existentially deracinated. Philosophers should be offered condolences rather than encouragement. ↗

— Mark Rowlands

#imagination

Gosto de imaginar que não é a decadência que nos mata mas a obscuridade que nos conduz até ela como uma íman. I like to imagine that is not the decay that kills us but the darkness that leads us to it as a magnet. ↗

— Victor Eustáquio

#decay #imagination