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Well, put it this way--I don't want to ever imagine a moment without you next to me ever again. ↗

— Gretchen de la O

#young-adult #young-adult-romance #imagination

Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings ↗

— Jocelyn Murray

#fear #imagination #imagination

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#imagination

Men... No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#imagination

Drugs have a long history of use in magic in various cultures, and usually in the context of either ecstatic communal rituals or in personal vision quests. However compared to people in simple pastoral tribal situations most people in developed countries now live in a perpetual state of mental hyperactivity with overactive imaginations anyway, so throwing drugs in on top of this usually just leads to confusion and a further loss of focus. Plus as the real Shamans say, if you really do succeed in opening a door with a drug it will thereafter open at will and most such substances give all they will ever give on the first attempt. ↗

— Peter J. Carroll

#commentary #magic #imagination

Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul. ↗

— Alister E. McGrath

#passion #imagination

Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell myself that as long as I'm with God, the Creator of the universe, I can be comfortable and at home anyplace on the planet. ↗

— Melody Carlson

#globe #trust #universe #worried #imagination

Better to have to retrace your steps and then move forward than never to move forward at all. ↗

— Anne Burack Sayre

#birthday #children-s #delightful #elementary-school #funny

Even those novelists most commonly deemed “philosophical” have sometimes answered with an emphatic no. Iris Murdoch, the longtime Oxford philosopher and author of some two dozen novels treating highbrow themes like consciousness and morality, argued that philosophy and literature were contrary pursuits. Philosophy calls on the analytical mind to solve conceptual problems in an “austere, unselfish, candid” prose, she said in a BBC interview broadcast in 1978, while literature looks to the imagination to show us something “mysterious, ambiguous, particular” about the world. Any appearance of philosophical ideas in her own novels was an inconsequential reflection of what she happened to know. “If I knew about sailing ships I would put in sailing ships,” she said. “And in a way, as a novelist, I would rather know about sailing ships than about philosophy. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#imagination

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it. ↗

— Joan Aiken

#imagination