Quotes about Imagination
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
— Alain de Botton
A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
— Alain de Botton
If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work, rather teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.
— Alan Hirsch
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
— Desmond Tutu
It's much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Because books, my friends, are true magic bound between two covers.
— Dolly Parton
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
— Anais Nin
Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.
— Bill Gates
Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.
— CS Lewis
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.
— Paulo Coelho
For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
— Samuel Beckett
If we believe in magic, we'll live a magical life.
— Tony Robbins