#ma

So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to. ↗

— Giles Andreae

#music #imagination

Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky... ↗

— John Noble Wilford

#force #imagination #mars #red #science

I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). There is nothing truer than myth... Reality does not have to be: it is simply what is. ↗

— Eugène Ionesco

#imagination #reality #dreams

Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. ↗

— John Green

#inspirational #present #imagination

It is not my place to offer pep talks, aphorisms, or dictums. But if I had to give one piece of practical advice it would be this: Find something that you love that they're fucking with and then fight for it. If everyone did that--imagine the difference. (50) ↗

— David Gessner

#environment #imagination

So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#sight-seeing #train-travel #travel #imagination

The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what they think it is. ↗

— Brian Herbert

#imagination

Some say that the anticipation of a thing is better than the thing itself. In my view, this is utter nonsense. Any fool can imagine a prize. I desire the tangible. ↗

— Brian Herbert

#imagination

Honest to God, she was the noisiest woman he'd ever been shot at with. ↗

— Jill Shalvis

#humour #romance #romantic-suspense #funny

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#material #pleasure #stuff #capitalism