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You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready. ↗

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

#motivational #inspirational

People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to escape the expected and ordinary, to escape the regular expectations of a story, and truly step into a different world of literature. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#creativity #imagination #literature #experience

…when we really connect with who God is… we will find He is better than anything we could ever imagine… ↗

— Shelley Hitz

#inspirational #imagination

...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine. ↗

— Hector Berlioz

#hamlet #shakespeare #imagination

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to power for power’s ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future generations, who would seek to live in a world free from the malign and self-serving influence of those who wield it. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#political-commentary #politics #posterity #power #resistance

Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done ↗

— Chad Michael Murray

#missed-chances #regret #inspirational

The hand's grasp near fits the skull, the covering bone by bone enclosed. And saying this, we grasp that. We each contain the universe inside our selves, the totality of existence encompassed by all that we have to make sense of it; a grey, ridged mushroom mass ladled into a bony bowl the size of a smallish cooking pot... In my more solipsistic moments, I have conjectured that we do not simply experience everything within that squashed sphere, but create it there too. Perhaps we think up our own destinies, and so in a sense deserve whatever happens to us, for not having had the wit to imagine something better. ↗

— Iain M. Banks - A Song of Stone

#experience

Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath...It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#inspiration #love #true-love #inspirational

A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine. They got ideas in their heads you and me can't even suppose. ↗

— Kent Haruf

#women #imagination

It was unnerving. She'd looked at him and had the uncontrollable urge to weep. Thus far she'd managed to control her emotions. Thank God. She didn't even want to imagine what he would think of her if she started weeping for absolutely no reason. ↗

— Debbie Macomber

#crying #debbie-macomber #emotions #feelings #the-trouble-with-angels