#nation

To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, boots, cakes and books; to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene; I can imagine how this can exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#motherhood #womanhood #imagination

She always wanted to believe in things. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#imagination #imagination

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#forget #past #strength #imagination

Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it’s own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#heartbreak #jamie-weise #love #missing-someone #missing-you

Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#imagination

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#imagination

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#human #imagination #soul #world #imagination

I could picture life—school and everything else—continuing on without me. But I could not picture my funeral. Not at all. Mostly because I couldn’t imagine who would attend or what they would say. ↗

— Jay Asher

#imagination

People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it? ↗

— Lemmy Kilmister

#imagination #lemmy-kilmister #reading #imagination

If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#imagination #love #understanding #imagination