Jane Roberts Quotes

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

I dream up things, and then I convince myself that they're possible.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.

The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences.

If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

Dreams do come true. If anyone's proof of that, it's me.

We tend to get what we expect.

It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion.

Everything you can imagine is real.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Hope is a waking dream.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.

We can live closer to our dreams if we are willing to dream them. And we can create a life as we want it to be.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.