Imagine what you will be, and it will be so. — Russell Crowe
You become what you envision yourself being. — Lewis Howes
Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be. — Joy Page
If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. — John Green
Reach into your imagination and see what makes you happy. — Bryant H. McGill
Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it. — Jason Silva
Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step. — Esther Hicks
You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be. — David Viscott
Imagine, as realistically as possible, the place where you want to be in the near future, the state you wish to reach and the Universe will help you and guide you — Napoleon Hill
When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. — RuPaul
I think you should be able to imagine things in a different way. And, you have to dedicate both your physical and mental abilities to that ambition to accomplish it. — Nirmal Purja
Imagination is nothing more than sensory states. Learn to go beyond an idea by feeling its reality. — Neville Goddard
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. — George Bernard Shaw
Short Imagining Yourself Quotes
Imagine you were flowing with energy and confidence, free of doubt and fear. — Shawn Phillips
I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live. — Sayings
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. — Susan Sarandon
What you think you become. — Buddha
Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself. — Rod Serling
dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are. — Kurt Cobain
If you can imagine it,You can achieve it.If you can dream it,You can become it. — William Arthur Ward
Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate
new worlds of thought and experience. — Charles F. Haanel
I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop. — Jack Youngblood
The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination. — Carson Mccullers
Imagining Yourself Image Quotes
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be — Alan Watts
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Self-image Quotes
Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence. — Maria Montessori
A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues. — Abraham Maslow
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed. — Indra Devi
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing.
All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more. — Lemmy Kilmister
When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking. — Gabrielle Roth
Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.
Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks--we will also find our path of authentic service in the world. — Parker J. Palmer
A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success. — Joyce Brothers
You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. — Abraham Lincoln
The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear. — Deepak Chopra
Imagine Quotes
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
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. — Kendrick Lamar
All you need is faith, trust and a little pixie dust.
You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'. — George Bernard Shaw
be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. — Henry David Thoreau
You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. — Deepak Chopra
The possibilities are endless.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. — Dr. Seuss
Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself. — Neville Goddard
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. — Blaise Pascal
Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world. — Shams Tabrizi
Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another. — Thomas Merton
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. — Marcus Aurelius
Seeing Yourself Quotes
The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes. — Voltaire
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. — Adi Shankara
Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself. — Chandra Shekhar Azad
Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself. — Malcolm X
To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe. — Jerry Garcia
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. — Tecumseh
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already; we have the power to imagine better.
People hate you for 1 of 3 reasons. 1) They hate themselves 2) They want to be you 3) They see you as a threat When you love yourself you are incapable of hating anyone no matter what they've done. — Tony Gaskins
Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering - you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself. — Baal Shem Tov
Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again? — Rachel Carson
Imagining Things Quotes
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. — Isaac Newton
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible. — Ida Tarbell
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. — William Blake
I went away in my head, into a book.
There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it? — Lemmy Kilmister
He who knows nothing loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees. The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love. — Paracelsus
Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice. — Will Smith
A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.
The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time - it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine. — Richard M. Nixon
People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better. — John Forbes Nash
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people. — Connie Nielsen
If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it. — Alexander Calder
Thinking About Yourself Quotes
Don't pressure yourself. Don't worry about what others think you should do or what the societal "norm" is. Do what moves you and makes you smile and the "good" will follow. — Misha Collins
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. — Pope John XXIII
You might as well like yourself; just think about all the time you're gonna have to spend with you. — Jerry Lewis
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. — Lao Tzu
Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious. — Maxine Greene
If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others? — Barack Obama
Worry is a misuse of the imagination!
Transform your world by transforming your internal state. Start by learning to let go of negative self judgment, and replace it with positive and loving thoughts about yourself. Be kind to yourself, and watch your external world change. — Anita Moorjani
I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all. — Coco Chanel
Run with your heart instead of your mind. When you think with your mind, you think of the things you can and can't do. But when you run with your heart you forget about what you can't do, and you just go out and do it. — Gerry Lindgren
The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe. — Deepak Chopra
Playing Yourself Quotes
Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design. — Oprah Winfrey
Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets. — Jimmy Buffett
That wall is your mind playing tricks on you. You just need to say, 'One more step, I can do this. I have more in me.' You'll be so proud of yourself once you push yourself past your threshold. — Kerri Walsh
Login will get you from A to B. Imagination wil take you everywhere
Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role! — Wei Wu Wei
Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life. — Kenneth Lonergan
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. — Colin Powell
When you know that you are eternal you can play your true role in time. When you know you are divine you can become completely human. When you know you are one with God you are free to become absolutely yourself. — Mother Meera
No volleyball play can begin without a serve, and the serve is the only technique that is totally under your control. In other endeavors, you cannot succeed without believing in yourself, and that belief is completely under your control. — Karch Kiraly
To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice. — Seve Ballesteros
The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right. — Tony Iommi
Imaginary Life Quotes
When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the behaviour and appearance of suburbs, tuberculosis sanatoria, fairs and imaginary dream cities - from anything but cities themselves. — Jane Jacobs
What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become. — David Malouf
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off somewhere else! ...just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are. — Kabir
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are. — Blaise Pascal
homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come. — Maya Angelou
In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog! — Matthew Lillard
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. — Theodore Newton Vail
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. — St. Catherine of Siena
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. — Mae Jemison
You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being. — Myles Munroe
So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can't be done. But it all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there no limits. — Michael Phelps
Close your eyes. Focus on making yourself feel excited, powerful. Imagine yourself destroying goals with ease. — Andrew Tate
It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined. — Paulo Coelho
If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it, however difficult it may be. If, on the contrary, you imagine that you cannot do the simplest thing in the world, it is impossible for you to do it, and molehills become for you unscalable mountains. — Emile Coue
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember. — Harold Pinter
When I'm feeling sad, or lonely, and I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know where I'm going, I imagine the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself just telling my present self, "It's okay. You just gotta grab that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out." — Jenna Marbles
You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with. — Gillian Anderson
When you stop searching and you calm down and you put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you are all about, that will bring about bliss faster than anything you can ever imagine or ever do. — Robert Adams
You must look at who you are and make an effort to know yourself, which is the most difficult knowledge one can imagine. — Miguel de Cervantes
In our imaginations we believe that love is apart from us. Actually there is nothing but love, once we are ready to accept it. When you truly find love, you find yourself — Deepak Chopra
Imagine if you took all of the time, energy, and emotions you’ve been giving to meaningless relationships with part-time people and invested all of it into your family, loyal friends, and yourself. Imagine. — Steven Bartlett
The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one. — Oscar Wilde
Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years? — Jerry Saltz
You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use. — Ozzy Osbourne
Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching. — Yoko Ono
Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination. — Robert H. Schuller
Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined. — Henry David Thoreau
The humanities prepare students to be good citizens and help them understand a complicated, interlocking world. The humanities teach us critical thinking, how to analyze arguments, and how to imagine life from the point of view of someone unlike yourself. — Martha C. Nussbaum
You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine — Sharon Salzberg
Too many of us are not living our dreams, because we are living our fears. Decide to become fearless. Face the thing you fear the most. You're stronger than you give yourself credit for.
If you can laugh at it. You can move past it. You have the ability to do more than you have ever hoped, imagined or dreamed. You have GREATNESS within you! — Les Brown
Imagine for a minute yourself in the same shoes, the same sense of survival and the same nothing to lose. — Lil' Kim
I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It's just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change. — Reese Witherspoon
No matter what challenging situation you may find yourself in, imagine the best outcome of it and feel it! When you do, you will change the circumstances, and you will change the situation into what you want! — Rhonda Byrne
The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself. — Karl Lagerfeld
You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions. If you say something kind, your kind words go in many directions, and you yourself go with them. We are ...transforming and continuing in a different form at every moment. — Nhat Hanh
Take a deep breath, relax and imagine yourself exactly as you wish to be. — Brian Tracy
The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist. — Brad Warner
Every day, or at least twice a week, take a few minutes and focus on seeing yourself in joy. Feel yourself in joy. Imagine only joy ahead in your life and see yourself basking in it. As you do this the Universe will move all people, circumstances, and events to bring you joy, joy and more joy. — Rhonda Byrne
What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first. — Phylicia Rashad
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it? — Anthony De Mello
When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side. — Florence Griffith Joyner
When you are about to badger the weak,
Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man. — Thiruvalluvar
Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die. — Anne Enright
To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done then? Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Learn to behave thus even in deepest distress and keep yourself that way in any and every estate of life. I can give you no better advice than to find God where you lost him. — Meister Eckhart
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. — Epictetus
Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react. — Derek Jacobi
The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself. — Harry Browne
Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn on you. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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