In the past I had often tried to escape the grown-up world of sorrow through my imagination- dreaming that a handsome young lieutenant would ride to my rescue or that a great empresario would discover my musical talents and whisk me away. I had envisioned knights in shining armor and happily ever after scenes to escape from rules or boredom or pain; including a vision of my mother walking through our front door whole and well again. Now I knew that a lifetime of escape led to a life like Aunt Bertie's. My imagination was a gift, but I had to live in the real world. My eyes had been opened this summer to poverty and crime and abuse and I needed to use my imagination not to escape, but to help people like Irina and Katya, to make my own contribution as the women in the women's pavilion had done. I couldn't do it in the same way Jane Adams and my grandmother and Aunt Mat were, but I would find my own way and my own time.
Lynn AustinTags: imagination escape eye-opening
Circumstances can have a motive force by which they bring about events without aid of human imagination or apprehension. On such occasions you yourself keep in touch with what is going on by attentively following it from moment to moment, like a blind person who is being led, and who places one foot in front of the other cautiously but unwittingly. Things are happening to you, and you feel them happening, but except for this one fact, you have no connection with them, and no key to the cause or meaning of them. [...] - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.
Karen BlixenTags: imagination life experience events
Truly, there is magic in fairy tales.
For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time...' to allure and spellbind an audience.
Tags: imagination story storytelling fairy-tales magic fairytale richelle richelle-goodrich spellbind
When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.
Criss JamiTags: imagination life art writing originality social perspective humanity solitude authenticity purity isolation brain artist alienation craft compromise creative introversion advantage loner genuine awkward fierce alienation-versus-humanity humanity-versus-alienation socially-awkward
That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.
Stefanos LivosTags: imagination books reality stories literature teach
...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.
Jonah LehrerTags: imagination creativity limitations constraints
When people go away they vanish, turn to nothing, stop being. They live only in memories, haunting the imagination.
Dezső KosztolányiTags: imagination people memories
When people wish for harmony, I wish for chaos. I'd rather see imaginative means of self-destruction, than to see laziness and wasted potential.
Lionel SuggsTags: imagination
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Ludwig WittgensteinTags: imagination music word keyboard note
In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?
Oscar WildeTags: imagination pity scorn
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