#nat

A traveller moves among real people in their own milieu and learns from them, soaking up their wisdom and philosophy, their way of being in the world. A tourist simply hops from one tourist highpoint to another, skimming across the surface, cramming in quantity rather than quality, and comes away with his soul and imagination unchanged, untouched by the wonder of a life lived differently. ↗

— Roxanne Reid

#travel #travel-writing #imagination

We have invented the literature because the reality wasn’t imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#imagination

from CHAOS? Trust the imagination. Peace is knowing without need for detailed explanation. Joy is openness to possibility. Sing your humming heart free from the heat of all creation. Swim into cool whirling coloured pools. Sleep on rock of consciousness. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#creation #heart #imagination #knowing #openness

when she was able to imagine a different life that might have been hers, the kind of life she knew that she'd always really wanted ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#thebestofme #imagination

A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, 'I have wonderful news!' and I was like, 'I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now,' and Gus said, 'This is wonderful news you want to hear,' and I asked him, 'Fine, what is it?' and he said, 'You are going to live a good long life filled with great and terrible moments you cannot even imagine yet! ↗

— John Green

#tfios #the-fault-in-our-stars #imagination

There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#imagination

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#appears #different #itself #nature #prejudiced

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#motivational #women #imagination

I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove... that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us. ↗

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

#mystery #realism #supernatural #art

Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration. ↗

— Marc Chagall

#nature #art