Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself
— Rumi
Astonishing Imagining quotations
Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death, My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats... Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death, Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest.
You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that.
You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either.
Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.
Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined.
Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.
.. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Improve the World Through Music.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp.
Call me crazy but I imagine a world where we smile when we have low batteries, because that will mean we’re one bar closer to humanity.
We are bound only by the limits of our imaginations.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.
Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination;
never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.
That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.
Good design is a matter of discipline.
It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination.