We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted...At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.
All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.
It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen.
All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!
It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.
The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.
One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.
The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
Stories are really important to people and can really change the way they understand, and even live, their lives. As such, I don't agree much with people who say, 'Calm down, it's just a story.'
How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.
The little ones still remember how to use the power of their imagination. They are still engaged in the utilization of their imagination, that is one of the reasons that keeps them so exhilarated.
Then blame not those who, by the mightiest lever Known to the moral world, Imagination.
The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.
I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle - the more you use it, the stronger it gets.
The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.
Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.
The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it, so that the power of their imagination keeps them suspended in mid-air; but as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall.
The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.
Whatever we fix our thoughts upon or steadily focus our imagination upon, that is what we attract.
